# What do you call a 225th anniversary? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 31, 2000, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-a-225th-anniversary/39137 "2000-10-31T20:56:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![missdavis102](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@missdavis102](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missdavis102)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-a-225th-anniversary/39137/1 "2000-10-31T20:56:20Z")
For instance, the 225th anniversary of US independance coming up next year? I was just a little tyke when the bicentenial came and went, so I didn’t get to celebrate much and am looking for a possible excuse to do so now. The only non-centeniary annivarsary I know for sure is the 150th, which is a sesquicentenial. Would a 250th be a bisesquicentenial? What of a 275th? And most urgently, the upcoming 225th? Is there a word for it? ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-a-225th-anniversary/39137/2 "2000-10-31T22:20:07Z")
The 250th anniversary is the bicenquinquagenary. Be sure to remember that 26 years from now. The only thing I have found for 225 years is “225th anniversary”. Kinda dissapointing, actually. I’m sure their is a nice, fancy word for the 225th, I just don’t know what it is. I’s call the bride and groom loudly, though. They’re probably hard of hearing. I nominate bicenquartial. ---
**Author:** ![Colin\_Trainer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/958977/32.png) [@Colin\_Trainer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colin_Trainer)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2000, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-a-225th-anniversary/39137/3 "2000-10-31T22:47:25Z")
A long friggin time to be married ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2000, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-a-225th-anniversary/39137/4 "2000-11-01T02:56:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Colin Trainer \* > \*\*A long friggin time to be married \*\* Well, there was that trial separation thing in the 1860s, but that just didn’t work out. 224 years and 37 kids later, not bad for a bunch of former Brits. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2000, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-a-225th-anniversary/39137/5 "2000-11-01T05:27:52Z")
Sesqui-sesquicentennial, perhaps? 1½ \* 1½ \* 100 = 225 I suppose really you’d want whetever the Latin phrase for “two and a quarter” is, with “centennial” after it. I never did learn my Latin numbers so well. I found serveral sites about the 225th anniversaries of various things. They always refer to it as “the 225th anniversary.” ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2000, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-call-a-225th-anniversary/39137/6 "2000-11-01T16:44:33Z")
according to Allen and Greenough’s Latin Grammar site [here](http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=ag+gram.+133&vers=english), the adjective you might be looking for is **bicenvicenquinquennial**. A couple of dictionaries give the definition of _vicennial_ as ‘every twenty years’ and of _quinquennial_ as ‘every five years’ with corresponding anniversary marks, and I kinda guessed as to the applicable roots for a complex ordinal number. Kinda makes me wish I still knew that Latin teacher I used to date.