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

In the beginning of this triennium, as the fathers of Ilocos were going to their province, two or three of them feared the horror of the journey by land, which is terrible.

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

Our father visitor-general began, then, his visit through the Tagál province Pampanga, and Ilocos, and kept for the following triennium what remained in the Pintados.

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

Our father provincial, Fray Juan Enríquez, had had a most happy triennium.

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

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