adverb
quotannīs
quotannīs (not comparable)
Classical[kʷɔˈtan.niːs]Ecclesiastical[kʷoˈtan.nis]
Mille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- not comparableyearly, annually, every year
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
omnibus annīsquotannīs — in Metamorphoses I, ch. 11
quŏtannis, v. quot.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
quot-annīs or quot annīs adv.,
every year, year by year, annually, yearly: ubi piratae fere quot annis hiemare solent: quot annis singula milia, Cs.: Hic illum vidi iuvenem quot annis, V.
Origins
From quot (“as often as”) + annus (“year”).