tricennalia

plural tricennalias · alternative Tricennalia

1. historicalThe festival and religious rituals celebrating a Roman emperor's 30th year of rule.

   In 336, the city was ready. Constantine the Great could celebrate his Tricennalia, his thirty-year jubilee, in his new capital. One year later, he was baptised and died.

   2008, Jona Lendering, “Constantine's City”, in Livius

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   As a chronological list of Roman emperors makes clear, several rulers reign long enough to enjoy their decennalia, but relatively few were fortunate enough to celebrate their vicennalia, their twentieth imperial anniversary; and from the second century onwards Constantine alone ruled long enough to celebrate a tricennalia.

   2012, Gary Forsythe, "Magna Mater and the Taurobolium", Time in Roman Religion, p. 111

   Synonyms: tricennial festival, tricennial celebration

plural Tricennalias

1. Alternative letter-case form of tricennalia.

   In 336, the city was ready. Constantine the Great could celebrate his Tricennalia, his thirty-year jubilee, in his new capital. One year later, he was baptised and died.

   2008, Jona Lendering, “Constantine's City”, in Livius