Novennium

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A nine-year period. rare

    "What he says of the novennium is an attempt at duplicity; he would have escaped with that if he could; he did not love to lie: What he says is that Ernulfus was a bishop a little over nine years […]"

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"What he says of the novennium is an attempt at duplicity; he would have escaped with that if he could; he did not love to lie: What he says is that Ernulfus was a bishop a little over nine years […]"

Etymology

From Late Latin novennium, from novennis (“9-year”) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns).

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