quinquennial

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin quīnquennālis, with some influence from quīnquennium (“five-year period”).

adj

  1. Of or related to a five-year period.
    By a singular coincidence, the great master of the Dorian lyre was born during the celebration of the Pythia, the quinquennial festival of Apollo[…] 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 3, page 25

noun

  1. A five-year period.
  2. A 5th anniversary.

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