Etymology
1840–50; < Latin: period of three years, equivalent to trienn ( is ) pertaining to three years ( tri- tri- + -enn-, combining form of annus year + -is adj. suffix) + -ium -ium
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He will close the books of Hyderabad's present financial triennium Oct.
From
Time Magazine Archive
Boudarini Episcopi de emulgentiarum profectibus Aeneades novem, cum privilegio Papali ad triennium et postea non.
From
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2
by Motteux, Peter Anthony
For never have I seen a triennium when there were not more than twenty deaths, and sometimes even thirty; while few are invested with the habit.
From
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55
1630-34
Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century
by Robertson, James Alexander
During this triennium the Manila Parián was burned.
From
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55
1630-34
Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century
by Robertson, James Alexander
Our father provincial, Fray Juan Enríquez, had had a most happy triennium.
From
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55
1630-34
Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century
by Robertson, James Alexander
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