millenary

Etymology

From Latin mīllēnārius.

millenary means Of or pertaining to a thousand, especially to a thousand years. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 86 out of 100.

Why this word is great

MILLENARY — [Adjective, Noun] Of or relating to a thousand, especially a thousand years; also, a period of a thousand years. From the Latin mīllēnārius, from mīllēnī ("a thousand each") and -ārius ("pertaining to"). Unlike "millennium," which leans toward prophetic or utopian grandeur, or "centenary," which is tethered to the manageable scale of a human lifetime, "millenary" denotes the dispassionate arithmetic of deep time—the austere term for the sheer, monumental span itself. It is the uncountable strata in a limestone cliff, the silent accumulation of ten centuries of dust in a sealed archive, and the patient, geological pacing behind all human hurry—a word that measures durations too vast for celebration, only for the silent, accumulating pressure of epochs.

adj

Of or pertaining to a thousand, especially to a thousand years.
Of or pertaining to a millennium; millenarian.“Surely, this operation hath this millenary doctrine had upon the hearts of men, that, though they are thereupon apt to expect an appropinquation of their Saviour for their happy advantage, yet they resolutely put off the thought of his coming to the general judgment of the world for many generations.”

noun

A period of one thousand years; a millennium.