Dozenal Powers of Years
The power prefixes of SNNz can be combined with the common suffix ‑ennium (derived from Latin annum, “year”) to construct Latinate terms for dozenal powers of years (cf. millennium):
| Power | English | Latinate | Elided | Meaning | Decimal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| −1 | uncia·year | uncia·ennium | unciennium | period of one dozenth of a year (one month) | 1/12d year |
| 0 | year | annum | period of one year | 1 year | |
| 1 | unqua·year | unqua·ennium | unquennium | period of one dozen years (dozenal “decade”) | 12d years |
| 2 | biqua·year | biqua·ennium | biquennium | period of one gross years (dozenal “century”) | 144d years |
| 3 | triqua·year | triqua·ennium | triquennium | period of one galore years (dozenal “millennium”) | 1,728d years |
| 4 | quadqua·year | quadqua·ennium | quadquennium | period of one dozen galore years | 20,736d years |
| 5 | pentqua·year | pentqua·ennium | pentquennium | period of one gross galore years | 248,832d years |
| 6 | hexqua·year | hexqua·ennium | hexquennium | period of one bigalore years (dozenal “megayear”) | 2,985,984d years |
| 7 | septqua·year | septqua·ennium | septquennium | period of one dozen bigalore years | 35,831,808d years |
| 8 | octqua·year | octqua·ennium | octquennium | period of one gross bigalore years | 429,981,696d years |
| 9 | ennqua·year | ennqua·ennium | ennquennium | period of one trigalore years (dozenal “gigayear”) | 5,159,780,352d years |
| ᘔ | decqua·year | decqua·ennium | decquennium | period of one dozen trigalore years | 61,917,364,224d years |
| Ɛ | levqua·year | levqua·ennium | levquennium | period of one gross trigalore years | 743,008,370,688d years |
| 10z | unnilqua·year | unnilqua·ennium | unnilquennium | period of one quadrigalore years (dozenal “terayear”) | 8,916,100,448,256d years |
The final -a· of each prefix may be elided with the e in ‑ennium. This wiki, however, will use the unelided forms.