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tricennalia

noun

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

    historical

    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.

Where it comes from

From Latin trīcennālia, from trīcennium (“30-year period”) + -ālia (“-alia: forming the names of festivals”), from trīcennis (“30-year”) + -ium (“forming abstract nouns”), from trīciēs (“thirty each”) + annus (“year”) + -is (“forming compound adjectives”). Equivalent to tricennium + -alia.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry tricennalia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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