Tricennalia

Quick meaning: Tricennalia is a noun meaning (historical) The festival and religious rituals celebrating a Roman emperor's 30th year of rule.

Meaning

(historical) The festival and religious rituals celebrating a Roman emperor's 30th year of rule.

Example Sentences

In 336, the city was ready. Constantine the Great could celebrate his Tricennalia, his thirty-year jubilee, in his new capital. One year later, he was baptised and died.

As a chronological list of Roman emperors makes clear, several rulers reign long enough to enjoy their decennalia, but relatively few were fortunate enough to celebrate their vicennalia, their twentieth imperial anniversary; and from the second century onwards Constantine alone ruled long enough to celebrate a tricennalia.

Word Forms

• tricennalias

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