decenniumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /dɪˈsɛnɪəm/

名詞

decennium (plural decenniums or decennia)

1. (rare) Synonym of decade: a ten year period.

   Coordinate terms: annum, biennium, triennium, quadrennium, quinquennium, sexennium, septennium, octennium, novennium, vicennium, tricennium, centennium, quincentennium, millennium, decamillennium, centimillennium, millionennium

   • 1998, soc.culture.netherlands‎ (Usenet):

     G.B. still has to cope with the heritage of approx. 20 years of consecutive Conservative reigns, just as you guys are getting your act together after almost a decennium of Enlightened Ronnie.

   • 1996, soc.culture.usa‎ (Usenet):

     Christian leaders refused even to *look* through Galileo's telescope (as a matter of fact, the Vatican cleared Galileo's name only as late as in the previous decennium).

使用する際の注意点

When decennium is used in place of the more common decade, it is generally employed to avoid the connection of decade with the set spans of ten year calendar periods whose last digits run from 1 to 0 or 0 to 9.

派生語

関連する語

• (adj.): See decennial
• (adv.): See decennially
• (10-year anniversary): decennial

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [dɛˈkɛn.ni.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [deˈt͡ʃɛn.ni.um]

語源 1

From decennis +‎ -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns).

名詞

decennium n (genitive decenniī or decennī); second declension

1. (post-classical) a period of ten years, a decennium, decade
   • 2nd century, Apuleius, On the God of Socrates XVIII:

     Calchas autem longe praestabilis hariolari simul alites et altaria et arborem contemplatus est, actutum sua divinatione et tempestates flexit et classem deduxit et decennium praedixit; non secus et in Troiano exercitu cum divinatione res indigent, tacet ille sapiens senatus nec audet aliquid pronuntiare vel Hicetaon vel Lampo vel Clytius, sed omnes silentio auscultant aut ingrata auguria Heleni aut incredita vaticinia Cassandrae.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

等位語

派生した語

• Danish: decennium
• Dutch: decennium
• English: decennium
• Norwegian: decennium, desennium
• Swedish: decennium

語源 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

形容詞

decennium

1. genitive masculine/feminine/neuter plural of decennis

参照

• “decennium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “decennium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.