encaenia

• encenia

From Latin encaenia, from Ancient Greek (τὰ) ἐγκαίνια ((tà) enkaínia, “dedication festival”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + καινός (kainós, “new”).

• IPA^(key): /ɛnˈsiːniə/

encaenia

1. A festival held to mark the anniversary of the dedication of a church or temple; (especially), of the Temple at Jerusalem.
2. The annual commemoration service of founders and benefactors of Oxford University.
   • 1773, Joshua Reynolds, edited by John Ingamells and John Edgcumbe, The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Yale, published 2000, page 43:

     I am but just returned from two great shews that have been exhibited lately the review at Portsmouth and the encenia at Oxford.

From Ancient Greek ἐγκαίνια (enkaínia).

encaenia n pl (genitive encaeniōrum); second declension

1. (plural only) A consecration or dedication festival

Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

• encaeniō

• “encaenia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• encaenia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• encaenia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.