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vicennium

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
vi-cen-ni-um
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A period of twenty years.

Etymology

From Latin vicennium, from vīcennis (“20-year”) + -ium, from vīciēs (“20 times”) + annus (“year”) + -is (suffix forming compound adjectives). Equivalent to vicennial + -ium.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

vicennia (plural) vicenniums (plural)

Derived Forms

vicennial

Phrases

annum (1 year) centennium (100) quincentennium (500) millennium (1000) decamillennium (10,000) centimillennium (100,000) millionennium (1,000,000)

Frequently Paired Words

vicennalia k'atun annum (1 year) biennium triennium quadrennium quinquennium sexennium

Questions

What does vicennium mean?
A period of twenty years.
Where does vicennium come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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