Meaning
1 sensesOf or related to a five-year period.
Examples
1 sentencesThe Athenians, after the purification, celebrated, for the first time, the quinquennial festival of the Delian games.
Translations
2 languagesOrigin
Borrowed from Latin quīnquenniālis, from quīnquennium (“5-year period”) + -ālis, from quīnBorrowed from Latin quīnquenniālis, from quīnquennium (“5-year period”) + -ālis, from quīnquennis (“5-year”) + -ium (“-ium: forming abstract nouns”), from quīnque (“five”) + annus (“year”) + -is (suffix forming compound adjectives).
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Forms
more quinquennial, most quinquennial| Comparative | more quinquennial Lesson |
|---|---|
| Superlative | most quinquennial Lesson |
regular
Synonyms
4 synonymsWord family
2 related wordsRelatedquinquennalia
Derivedquinquennially
Lessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.