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“year” in Latin

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

year
annus (the proper name): annuum tempus: anni or annuum spatium (the space of a year). A half year, semestre spatium; sex menses: in the pasty., anno superiore, exacto, transacto, circumacto, etc. (☞ not elapso): to enter upon a new year with good thoughts and resolutions, novum annum faustum et felicem reddere bonis cogitationibus: to wish anybody a happy new year, optari alicui et ominari in proximum annum laeta (after Plin., Ep., 4, 15, 5): to wish one another a happy new year, primum incipientis anni diem laetis precationibus invicem faustum ominari (Plin., 28, 2, 5; ☞ Ov., Fast., 1, 175, cur laeta tuis dicuntur verba kalendis): the year before, anno ante; anno superiore or proximo: the year after, or the next year (speaking of past time), anno postero: a year after he was banished, postero anno quam ejectus est: three years after he had returned, post tres annos or tertium annum quam redierat; tertio anno quam redierat; tribus annis or tertio anno postquam redierat; tertio anno quo redierat: in the course of the year, anno vertente: every other year, alternis annis: every year, singulis annis; quot annis: every third, fourth year, tertio, quarto quoque anno: for a year, annum (e.g., potestatem annum obtinere; aliquem annum lugere): not to have convoked the Senate for nearly a year, anno jam prope senatum non habuisse (Liv.): three times a year, ter in anno: to put off anything for a year, for this year, for many years, aliquid differre in annum, in hunc annum, in multos annos: this year, hoc anno (less commonly in hoc anno): taking one year with another, ut peraeque ducas, etc. (i. e., upon an average of several years, hos numquam minus, ut peraeque ducerent, dena millia sestertia ex melle recipere esse solitos): a whole year, annus integer: above (or more than a year), plus: amplius (more): major, majus (older): ☞ et quod excurrit, very late; e.g., Paullus, Digestsdecem et quod excurrit; Veg., Mil., 1, 28, viginti et quod excurrit annorum pax): it is more than twenty years, amplius sunt viginti anni: above a year, plus annum (e.g., cum aliquo vivere); annum et eo diutius (e.g., esse in Gallia cum aliquo simul): it is more than three years since, amplius sunt tres anni; amplius triennium est: it is a year since, annus est cum, postquam, etc.: it is not yet ten years since, nondum decem anni sunt cum, etc.: how long is it since this happened? St. It is now twenty years, quam diu id factum est? St. Hic annus incipit vicesimus: a year had scarcely elapsed, annus vix intercesserat: in the winter of the year 1000, hieme, qui fuit annus millesimus (after Caes., B.G., 4, 1, near the biginning): a space of two, three, six, ten years, biennium, triennium, sexennium, decennium (or duo anni, etc.): a year old, anniculus; unius anni (general term); unum annum natus (of persons): to be so many years old, natum, with accusative of the years; or esse, with genitive of the years: to be above so many years old, vixisse, confecisse, complevisse (so many years): thus, he is nineteen years old, decem et novem annos natus est; decem et novem annorum est: he is above ninety years old, nonaginta annos vixit, confecit, complevit; also, nonagesimum annum excessisse, egressum esse: above or under thirty-three years old, major or minor annos tres et triginta natus, or major (minor) annorum trium et triginta; also, major (minor) quam annos tres et triginta natu (Cic.) or natus (Nep.); major (minor) quam annorum trium et triginta: I take him to be sixty years old, if not more, sexaginta annos natus est, aut plus, ut conjicio: he died at the age of thirty-three, decessit annos tres et triginta natus: in the thirtieth year of his age, tricesimum annum agens: in years, magnus natu; magno natu; grandior or pergrandis natu; aetate provectior or grandior; aetate jam senior (of advanced age) aetate affectus (grown old; all of persons); vetus or vetulus (somewhat old; of persons and things: ☞ grandaevus is poetical): to be in years, annosum esse (of animate and inanimate objects); aetate provectiorem esse: longius aetate provectum esse; grandiorem natu esse (of persons); vetustum esse (of things): to advance in years, senescere; longius aetate procedere or provehi: in course of years, aetate; tempore procedente: season of the year, anni tempus: the four seasons of the year, quatuor anni tempora; commutationes temporum quadripartitae.

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for year?
The usual Latin words for “year” are annus, exigō, trānsigō; also circumagō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.