quincentennium
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A period of five hundred years, half a millennium.
Example Sentences
- "And Mr John Graham, editor of The New Shetlander and one of the most articulate ideologues of the 1967 revolution, reinterpreted the problem of “Social Change during the Quincentennium” (1469–1969) accordingly."
- "In more leisurely days there were Egyptian millenia^([sic]), Greek and Roman quincentennia, and Spanish, French, and British centuries."
Etymology
From New Latin quincentennium (“500-year period”). Compare the classical Latin form quingenti (“500”). Equivalent to quin- (“five”) + centennium (“century, 100-year period”). Cognate with quincentenary and quincentennial.