triennium

American  

[trahy-en-ee-uhm] / traɪˈɛn i əm /

noun

• trienniums,
  plural
• triennia
  plural

1. a period of three years.

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triennium British  

/ traɪˈɛnɪəm /

noun

1. a period or cycle of three years

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• triennia
  plural
• trienniums
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of triennium

1840–50; < Latin: period of three years, equivalent to trienn ( is ) pertaining to three years ( tri- tri- + -enn-, combining form of annus year + -is adj. suffix) + -ium -ium

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Example Sentences

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triennium

He will close the books of Hyderabad's present financial triennium Oct.

From Time Magazine Archive

For never have I seen a triennium when there were not more than twenty deaths, and sometimes even thirty; while few are invested with the habit.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 1630-34 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson

During that triennium I acted as prior of Panay for the second time; for during the intermediary chapter of our father Baraona I went as prior to Aclán, which was a house with a vote.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 1630-34 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson

But the most abundant season of those fruits was seen to be during the triennium of April 21, 1668, to 1671.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Emma Helen Blair

In years he was the other man’s senior, and he had also visited a university for a triennium before joining the army, while the other had simply completed the easy curriculum of the military academy.

From A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day by Fritz Oswald Bilse

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