This question is driven by lack of a better word. Ask question asked 9 years, 2 months ago modified 7 years, 11 months ago If not, and i had to coin a word, then would quadweekly, quadriweekly, or some other word be more etymologically approp. Ask question asked 7 years, 11 months ago modified 7 years, 11 months ago While writing programs, i need to create a drop down for setting periods, like daily, weekly, monthly, etc.
Hourly, daily, monthly, weekly, and yearly suggest a consistent approach to creating adverbial forms of time measurements, but the form breaks down both in smaller time units (secondly, minutely—perhaps because of the danger of confusion with other meanings of those words) and in larger ones (decadely, centurily. What do lengths of time with the bi prefix mean? Is there a term two designate a frequency of every two weeks, like weekly for every week. I have understood bicentennial as once every two hundred years, but biannual as meaning twice a year. However, my colleagues talk about having meetings biweekly.
1 Why There Are Two Different Meanings For “Triweekly”?
Is there another word to indicate a period of exactly 3 weeks? Are there any words i can use to disambiguate “biweekly”? What is the collective term for daily, weekly, monthly and yearly? Do biweekly and bimonthly mean twice a week.
Using One Year As A Time Frame.
What's the generic word for weekly/monthly etc. I am looking for a word which would apply to the groupings of periods of time, for example: It's almost as though the language evolved rather than being properly designed. Is there a fourth word in this series: