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Though I congratulate Anu and AWAD heartily on their sixteenth anniversary the relation between 16 and the given words is pretty loose. Also none of the online dictionaries give a life sign for the word sexdecennial, which at first sight I interpreted as 60, while googling the word brings up: about 121 for sexdecennial. One more (122) after I googled it a second time.
Is the word "dictionatical"? (to use a tsumesque appraoch).
Last edited by BranShea; 03/11/2010 9:46 AM.
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I don't think it's dictionatical if it isn't in any dictionary. It is based on the structure of quindecennial. Not to mention undecennial and duodecennial.
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60th anniversary would be sexgennial. Jocular words like these (see this list) assume a familiarity with Latin. I still remember fondly my hometown's sesquicentennial in 1973 and then a few years later a professor noting the sesquimillennial of the fall of the (Western) Roman Empire.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Can't say my familiarity with Latin goes very far. I had already found another list but it looked like my worst nightmare and I dared not mention it. It's o v e r w h e l m i n g. Crushing. all of it Someone's real labor of love.
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