triennium

American  

[trahy-en-ee-uhm] / traɪˈɛn i əm /

noun

plural

trienniums, triennia

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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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

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Blair, Emma Helen

Boudarini Episcopi de emulgentiarum profectibus Aeneades novem, cum privilegio Papali ad triennium et postea non.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

At the completion of his triennium he was chosen president of the Recollect hospitium in Mexico.

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 Blair, Emma Helen

Devon. lit. gram. instit. per quinquennium apud Torrington sub Mro Reynolds, deinde per triennium sub Mro Rayner apud Tiverton, in com. pr�dicto.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 107, November 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various