duodecade
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Late Latin duodecas (“twelve”), from Ancient Greek δυωδεκάς (duōdekás, “twelve”). Equivalent to duodeca- + -ade.
Noun
[edit]duodecade (plural duodecades)
- A period of twelve years.
- Each Chinese New Year during a "Jupiter return"—when a duodecade has passed and the Chinese zodiac animal of your birth year comes back around—it is expected that you find some red underwear to put on for the special occasion.
- 1880, The Popular Science Monthly, page 471:
- A second part is meadow-land, and every twelve years this is divided into as many parts as there are holders of village rights, and each one receives a share, of which he has the exclusive use until the redivision at the end of the duodecade.
Alternative forms
[edit]- dodecade (less common)
Coordinate terms
[edit]- (group) monad, duad/dyad, triad, tetrad, pentad, hexad, hebdomad/heptad, ogdoad/octad, ennead/nonad, decad/decade, hendecad, dodecad/duodecade, chiliad
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Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]duodecade (plural duodecades)
- (nonstandard) A period of two decades, a period of 20 years.
- 1996, Mary Lindemann, Health & Healing in Eighteenth-century Germany, →ISBN:
- When I divide the past sixty years, 1706-65, into twenty-year periods, [I discover that] in the first duodecade, 702 people died, that is, an average of 35 a year. In the second period to 1745, 850, or 42i/$ each year, perished.
- 1999, Reformation:
- McIntosh sampled four to six consecutive Leet Court sessions, usually covering two to three years, in each twenty-year span or 'duodecade' of her period. Her f1gures therefore provide a minimum number of communities involved ...
Latin
[edit]Noun
[edit]duōdecade
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