novennium

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noun

A nine-year period.

OriginLate Latin novennium →
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Meanings

nounnovennium (plural novennia)

plural novennia

  1. rareA nine-year period.

    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 […]

    1871, Henry Scale English, Crowland and Burgh, volume 3, page 148

Origin

  1. Late Latinnovennium
  2. Englishnovennium

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

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novennium. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/novennium

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“novennium.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/novennium. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “novennium,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/novennium.

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