annotinus

Forms

annōtinus (feminine annōtina, neuter annōtinum); first/second-declension adjective^[1]

Etymology

It is formed from Latin annus (“year”) + -tinus, on the pattern of diūtinus (“long-lasting”).^[2][3][1]

Earliest recorded meaning

Caesar, in the Gallic War, uses it of the previous year's ships: cum annotinis (with those of last year).^[3][4]

Semantic evolution

Lewis & Short call it rare and found only in prose.^[3] Columella and Pliny the Elder use it of things a year old, Pliny of last year's fruit beside the new.^[3]

In Medieval Latin Bede used it, in reckoning time, for “of the previous year”;^[5] it also meant annual or anniversary: Bernold of Constance says that the Romans call it annotinum pascha when the day of their baptism at Easter is kept as an anniversary in the following year, and charters use it for yearly dues and yearly produce.^[5] A capitulary of the Frankish kings uses it of yearling foals and lambs.^[5] It survives in Romanian noaten and Aromanian noatin.^[1]

Timeline

• c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it of the previous year's ships.^[3][6]
• 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder sets new fruit beside last year's.^[3][6]
• early 8th century – Bede uses it in his work on the reckoning of time.^[5][6]
• 1188 – A Lower Rhine charter uses it of the yearly feast of the Resurrection.^[5]

Meanings

Adjective

1. Of the previous year, a year old.^[2][3]
2. (Medieval Latin) Annual, recurring every year;^[5][7] annotinum pascha, the anniversary of Easter baptism.^[5][7]
3. (Medieval Latin) One year old, yearling (of animals).^[5]

Related words

• hornotinus
• diutinus

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
3. ^ a b c d e f g Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
4. ^ Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
5. ^ a b c d e f g h Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch bis zum ausgehenden 13. Jahrhundert (1967–), Munich: C. H. Beck; Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
6. ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
7. ^ a b du Cange, Charles du Fresne, et al. (1883–1887), Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis, augmented ed. by Léopold Favre, Niort: L. Favre