The corpus record — Latin

quinquennium

quinquennium · n

a period of five years

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Where it lives

Pescennius Niger 1 · 4.39/10k
Firmus Saturninus, Proculus et Bonosus 1 · 4.32/10k
Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 2 · 3.64/10k
Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
Probus 1 · 2.43/10k
De Senectute 2 · 2.42/10k
Severus 1 · 2.37/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 5 · 2.33/10k
Tiberius 2 · 2.2/10k
De Lege Agraria 3 · 2.18/10k
Controversiae 13 · 1.97/10k

Densest 12 of 45 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

quinquennĭum — Lewis & Short

quinquennĭum, ii, n.quinquennis,

I a period of five years, five years (class.): CENSORES MAGISTRATVM QVINQVENNIVM HABENTO, Cic. Leg. 3, 3, 7: tria quinquennia, i. e. fifteen years, Ov. M. 4, 292: duo, id. ib. 12, 584.

In the wild

quinquennium Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 2.5.16
quinquennium Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.7.p3
quinquennium Tacitus, Annales 2.p36
quinquennio Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 14.17.p1
quinquennium Tacitus, Annales 2.p36
quinquennio Suetonius, Divus Vespasianus 2.1

6 of 109 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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