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- noun rare A
period of five hundredyears ; half amillennium .
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Formed from the compounding of quin- (“five”) + centennium (“period of a hundred years”); compare the earlier quincentennial. Etymologically regular formation (stemming from the Latin quīnque, “five”) would produce *quinquecentennium.
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