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quarantennale

forty-year

adjective kwah-ran-ten-NAH-leh Rare
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Origin: From quaranta (forty) + -ennale (suffix for periods of years).

Also means

fortieth anniversary

Usage Note

Quarantennale functions as both adjective (un piano quarantennale — 'a forty-year plan') and noun (il quarantennale della fondazione — 'the fortieth anniversary of the foundation'). Like all adjectives ending in -e, it has the same form for masculine and feminine singular, with plural quarantennali. The seed POS is noun but it can also be adjective.

Examples

"Si celebrava il quarantennale dell'istituzione."

Natural Translation

The fortieth anniversary of the institution was being celebrated.

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