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v 4 i 1 c 3 e 1 n 1 n 1 i 1 a 1 l 1

9 letters · 14 points in Scrabble

Meaning

adjective occurring once every 20 years

originFrom vicennium + -al or directly from Latin vīcenniālis, from vīcennium (“20-year span”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjective-forming suffix), from vīcennis (“20-year”) + -ium (“-ium”, suffix forming abstract nouns), from vīciēs (“20 times”) + annus (“year”) + -is (suffix forming compound adjectives). Equivalent to vice- (“twenty”) + -ennial.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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