Pronounced: A-suhr-bate (the ‘A’ is a short a, as in ‘bat’), verb
Notes: This may mean what you think
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The word quingentenary means a 500th anniversary. Another spelling is quincentenary.
Background
The word comes from Latin quingenti (five hundred), which is a combination of quinque (five) plus centum (hundred).
First used
The word was used in the late 1800s
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