noun · masculinesecond declension
annus
annus m (genitive annī)
Classical[ˈan.nʊs]Ecclesiastical[ˈan.nus]
№ 167 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- masculineyear
Viginti annos natus est.
He is twenty years old.Abhinc duo annos factum est.
It happened two years ago. - figurativelymasculinetime
- figurativelymasculineseason
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
tempus quō sōl per omnia caelī loca redit: duodecim mēnsēs, quattuor tempora.annus -ī m — in Mille Verba, Tempus et Numerī
year
annus -ī — in Viri Romae Facillimi, ch. 8
a year
annus — in Seneca, ch. I
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | annus | annī |
| genitive | annī | annōrum |
| dative | annō | annīs |
| accusative | annum | annōs |
| ablative | annō | annīs |
| vocative | anne | annī |
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- ad annum
- a year from now.
- proximo anno
- (1) last year; (2) next year.
- anno vertente
- in the course of the year.
- anni descriptio
- the division of the year (into months, etc.)
- quinto quoque anno
- every fifth year.
- puer decem annorum
- a boy ten years old.
- decem annos vixisse
- to be ten years old.
- quot annos natus es?
- how old are you?
28 more phrases
- exeunte, extremo anno
- at the end of the year.
- centum annos complere
- to reach one's hundredth year, to live to be a hundred.
- superiore, priore anno
- last year.
- singulis annis, diebus
- year by year; day by day.
- tum habebam decem annos
- I was ten years old at the time.
- tredecim annos natus sum
- I am thirteen years old.
- initio anni, ineunte anno
- at the beginning of the year.
- tertium decimum annum ago
- I am in my thirteenth year.
- accessio paucorum annorum
- the addition of a few years.
- minorem esse viginti annis
- to be not yet twenty.
- anno ab urbe condita quinto
- in the fifth year from the founding of the city.
- imperium in annum prorogare
- to prolong the command for a year.
- decimum aetatis annum ingredi
- to be entering on one's tenth year.
- viginti anni et amplius, aut plus
- twenty years and more.
- annus (mensis, dies) intercalaris
- the intercalary year (month, day).
- insequenti(e) anno (not sequente)
- in the following year.
- praeterito anno (not praeterlapso)
- in the past year.
- vitam ad annum centesimum perducere
- to reach one's hundredth year, to live to be a hundred.
- prorogare alicui imperium (in annum)
- to prolong a person's command.
- in aetatem alicuius, in annum incidere
- to happen during a person's life, year of office.
- decimum annum excessisse, egressum esse
- to be more than ten years old, to have entered on one's eleventh year.
- quinque annos or sextum (iam) annum abest
- he has been absent five years.
annus, i, m. acc. to some, as Corssen, Beitr. 16, for am-nus, from 2. an- am-; or acc. to others, directly from 2. anus, a ring, and kindred to the form appearing, in ἐνοαυτός, δί-ενος, τρί-ενος.
I. Lit., a circuit, circular course, periodical return: tempus a brumā ad brumam, dum sol redit, vocatur annus;
quod, ut parvi circuli anuli, sic magni dicebantur circites ani, unde annus, Varr. L. L. 6, § 8 Müll.; cf. for the same idea: circum tribus actis annis, Lucr. 5, 883: anno, qui solstitiali circumagitur orbe, Liv. 1, 19; 6, 1: quae (stellae) volvunt magnos in magnis orbibus annos, Lucr. 5, 644; so Verg. A. 1, 234: multis solis redeuntibus annis, Lucr. 1, 311; so Verg. A. 8, 47; cf. also Voss ad Verg. G. 2, 402; and the Heb. = month, from = to renew; hence, a year (consisting among the Rom. orig. of ten months, ending with Dec. and beginning with Mart., but from the time of Numa of twelve): annos sexaginta natus, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 10: principio circum tribus actis impiger annis Floret equus, Lucr. 5, 881: tempora mutare annorum, the seasons, id. 2, 170: anni tempus, Varr, R. R. 1, 46: nemo est tam senex, qui se annum non putet posse vivere, Cic. Sen. 7, 24: centum et septem complevit annos, id. ib. 5, 13 et saep.: anni fugaces, Hor. C. 2, 14, 1: anni mobiles, id. A. P. 157: annus piger, id. Ep. 1, 1, 21: anni breves, id. C. 4, 13, 23: per exactos annos, id. ib. 3, 22, 6: initio anni, Liv. 2, 52: principio anni, id. 2, 48: anno ineunte, Suet. Calig. 42; id. Tib. 54: anno exeunte, Cic. Div. 1, 25: extremo anno, Liv. 2, 64: extremo anni, Tac. A. 6, 27: anno circumacto, Liv. 6, 1: vertente anno, Vulg. 2 Reg. 11, 1: annus totus, Hor. S. 2, 3, 1: annus solidus, a full year, Liv. 1, 19.—Poet.: pleno anno, at the close of, Hor. C. 3, 18, 5; Plaut. Stich. 1, 1, 30; id. Men. 2, 1, 9: nondum centum et decem anni sunt, cum lata est lex, Cic. Off. 2, 21, 75: lex anno post quam lata sit abrogata, id. Cornel. Fragm. ap. Orell. IV. 2, p. 448.—B. Adverb. phrases.
1. Anno.
a. A year ago, last year, πέρυσι (for the most part anteclass.;
not used by Cic.), Plaut. Am. prol. 91: quattuor minis ego emi istanc anno, id. Men. 1, 3, 22; id. Truc. 2, 4, 39: utrum anno an horno te abstuleris a viro, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 121, 8; so, ab anno priore, Vulg. 2 Cor. 8, 10; and: ab anno praeterito, ib. ib. 9, 2.—b. A full or whole year, Liv. 3, 39 fin.:
corpus ejus matronae anno luxerunt, Aur. Vict. Vir. Ill. 10 fin. (in Livy, instead of it, annum; v. 2. infra).—c. In each year, yearly:
uno boum jugo conseri anno quadragena jugera, difficilis tricena justum est, Plin. 18, 18, 48, § 173.—But in is freq. added when it is related how often a thing happened during the year, Varr. R. R. 2, 11, 8: ter in anno, Cic. Rosc. Am. 46: semel in anno, Vulg. Heb. 9, 7 (cf.: semel per annum, ib. Ex. 30, 10) al. (but without in' ter et quater anno, Hor. C. 1, 31, 14: bis anno, Plin. 2, 73, 75, § 184).—2. Annum, a year, during a whole year:
matronae annum eum luxerunt, Liv. 2, 7.— 3. Ad annum, for the coming year, a year hence:
faciendum est ad annum, Cic. de Or. 3, 24, 92: quem ad annum tribunum plebis videbam fore, id. Att. 5, 2.—4. In annum.
a. For a year: prorogatum in annum im perium est, Liv. 37, 2, 11: si quid Est (gnaws) animum, differs curandi tempus in annum? Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 39:
provisae frugis in annum Copia, id. ib. 1, 18, 109.—b. In the next year, the next year:
quod stercoratione faciunt in annum segetes meliores, Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 12.—5. Per annos, year by year, yearly:
arva per annos mutant, et superest ager, Tac. G. 26; so, per omnes annos, Vulg. Lev. 16, 34; ib. Luc. 2, 41.—6. Omnibus annis, all the years, always, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 21.—
II. Transf.
A. Poet., a part of a year, a season of the year:
nunc frondent silvae, nunc formosissimus an-nus, now the forest is clothed with verdure, now the year is most beautiful, Verg. E. 3, 57; so, pomifer annus, Hor. C. 3, 23, 8: hibernus annus, id. Epod. 2, 29: Pisaeumque domus non aestuat annum, i. e. the summer (in which season of the year the Olympic games were celebrated at Pisa), Stat. S. 1, 3, 8.—B. The produce of the year (poet. or in post-Aug. prose; cf.
annona, I.), Luc. 9, 437: agricolae annum flevere, id. 3, 452; 3, 70; Stat. Th. 4, 710; Val. Fl. 5, 424: nec arare terram aut exspectare annum, Tac. G. 14, ubi v. Rup.; cf. Schwarz ad Plin. Pan. 29.—C. Time of life (poet.):
Dum vernat sanguis, dum rugis integer annus, while your years are free from wrinkles, Prop. 5, 5, 59: vitae longus et annus erit, the years of life, id. 3, 7, 38.—D. In polit. life, the age to which one must attain in order to be appointed to an office (cf. annalis, II.):
quod hoc honore me adfecistis primā petitione, quod anno meo, Cic. Agr. 2, 2: subito reliquit annum suum seseque in annum proximum transtulit, id. Mil. 9, 24: qui anno suo petierint, id. ib. 9, 24; id. Att. 1, 1; id. Fam. 10, 25.—E. In astronomy: annus magnus or mundanus, the period of time in which the constellations return to the same place; acc. to Macr. Somn. Scip. 2, 11, 15,000 years; v. Cic. N. D. 2, 20; Tac. Or. 16; and Madv. ad Cic. Fin. 2, 31, 102.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
annus ī, m
1 AC-, a year (orig. ten months, from Martius to December; after Numa, twelve): annos sexaginta natus es, T.: se annum posse vivere: ad annum octogesimum pervenire, N.: annos habere quattuor, to be four years old: anni fugaces, H.: piger, H.: anni breves, H.: initio anni, L.: anno exeunte: extremo anno, L.: proximus, S.: solidus, a full year, L.: gravis annis, with age, H.: pleno anno, at the close of, H. — In adverb. uses: anno senatum non habere, during a year, L.: maximam uno anno pecuniam facere: ter in anno, each year: ter et quater anno, H.: matronae annum eum luxerunt, a whole year, L.: faciendum est ad annum, a year hence: prolatae in annum res, for a year, L.: differs curandi tempus in annum? H.: provisae frugis in annum Copia, for a year, H.: in unum annum creati, for a single year, L.: inter tot annos, during so many years: per tot annos: per hos annos: arva per annos mutant, every year, Ta.: omnibus annis, every year, H.: omnes annos, perpetually, H.: post aliquot annos, some years later: abhinc duo annos, two years ago. — Meton., a season: nunc formosissimus annus, now the year is most beautiful, V.: pomifer, H. — The produce of the year: nec arare terram aut exspectare annum, Ta.—The age required for public office (see annalis): anno meo, i. e. as soon as I was eligible.—In astronomy: magnus, the period in which the signs complete a circuit.
Origins
Proposed to derive from Proto-Italic *atnos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ét-no-, probably from *h₂et- (“to go”). Cognate with Oscan akno- (“year, holiday, time of offering”); Umbrian acnu (“years”); and Gothic *𐌰𐌸𐌽 (*aþn) or *𐌰𐌸𐌽𐍃 (*aþns, “year”), attested in 𐌰𐍄𐌰𐌸𐌽𐌹 (ataþni, “year”). Displaced Proto-Indo-European *wétos in the sense "year." For the root, compare Sanskrit अतति (atati, “he wanders, goes”). For a comparable case of *-tn- yielding a geminate -nn-, see penna (“feather”), from Proto-Italic *petnā.
Gallo-Romance
- Frenchanfrom Old French an
- Frenchannéefrom Old French an
- Catalanany
- Occitananfrom Old Occitan an
- Occitanannadafrom Old Occitan an
- Franco-Provençalan
- Franco-Provençalanâ
- Antillean Creolelannéfrom Old French an
- Normanaunfrom Old French an
- Normananfrom Old French an
Italo-Dalmatian
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- Istriotano
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Ibero-Romance
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- Spanishañofrom Old Spanish anno
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