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quinquennial

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12 lettersPronunciation /kwɪŋˈkwɛ.ni.əl/Sorted aeiilnnnqquuStarts with QEnds with L0 clues
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  1. Of or related to a five-year period.

Word origin

Borrowed from Latin quīnquenniālis, from quīnquennium (“5-year period”) + -ālis, from quīnquennis (“5-year”) + -ium (“-ium: forming abstract nouns”), from quīnque (“five”) + annus (“year”) + -is (suffix forming compound adjectives).

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  • By a singular coincidence, the great master of the Dorian lyre was born during the celebration of the Pythia, the quinquennial festival of Apollo[…]
  • The best data that BEA have come from the quinquennial censuses of business; these are used to “benchmark” the national accounts every five years and to compute new input-output tables.

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