Noun: septennium
| Singular | septennium |
| Plural | septenniums; septennia |
Sample Sentences
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It might be sufficient to answer, that, of the septennium required for the arts degree in the old system the greater portion is now spent at school. [1868, Mark Pattison, Suggestions on Academical Organisation with Especial Reference to Oxford, section VI: “Of the Studies Preliminary to the Degree”, § 4: ‘Liberal Studies (Arts) and Special Studies (Science)’, page 265]
Nouns inflected like septennium
hemiscrotum,
saeculum,
stramonium,
proscenium,
dinotherium,
quinquennium,
ambulacrum,
prolabium,
preepisternum,
coimperium,
septennium,
fulcrum,
emporium,
subminimum,
mausolæum,
mausoleum,
serpentarium,
triregnum,
viaticum,
megaannum, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Late Latin septennium, from septennis (“7-year”) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns).