What's the difference between tercentenary and tricentenary?
Tercentenary
Definition:
(a.) Including, or relating to, an interval of three hundred years.
(n.) The three hundredth anniversary of any event; also, a celebration of such an anniversary.
Example Sentences:
(1) Not only it represents the tercentenary of the historic defeat, but the national day or Diada also comes two months before a scheduled vote for independence on 9 November.
(2) But from 1940, when he published his tercentenary essay, The English Revolution 1640, his own voluminously expanding and unfailingly literate work became the starting point of most subsequent interpretation, even for those who rejected his method and conclusions.
Tricentenary
Definition:
(a.) Including, or relating to, the interval of three hundred years; tercentenary.
(n.) A period of three centuries, or three hundred years, also, the three-hundredth anniversary of any event; a tercentenary.
Example Sentences:
(1) His work was published in 1691, and on the occasion of the Tricentenary of its publication, the "First International Symposium on Phlebotomine Sandflies" was organized.
(2) It is particularly appropriate for an assemblage of protozoologists to pay homage to this intrepid "philosopher in little things," a man with an insatiable curiosity about his wee animalcules, on the tricentenary of his discovery of them, since it was an event of such long-lasting significance.