annuus Latin · revision 31307

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 235–200 BC, Naevius|origins=ine-pro *h₂et-no-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈan.nu.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈan.nu.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''annuus''' (feminine annua, neuter annuum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|annus|t=year]] with the suffix [[m|la|-uus]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan derives ⟨annus⟩ from [[itc-pro|*atno-|t=year]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂et-no-|t=a going, year]], from a root meaning “to go, wander”, so that the year was “what goes round”.^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[osc|akeneí|t=in the year]] and [[xum|acnu|t=year]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler gives Naevius as its first author,^(Köbler 2010) and de Vaan dates it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008) whose pimp in the ''Pseudolus'' says he must be given a year's provisions that day.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is of the year or yearly, as Accius' “in the yearly course”, and of what is paid, offered or recurs every year, as Cicero's “yearly changes of cold and heat”.^(OLD 2012) Of magistrates and commands it is appointed for a single year, as Cicero's state bound by annual magistrates, Caesar and Nepos;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) it is also what lasts a year, as in the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'', where “a year's talk would hardly be enough”, and a year's supply.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “yearly, annual, of a year's duration”.^(Stelten 1995) Köbler finds it in Aldhelm, the Bible, capitularies, councils and charters.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 235–200 BC – Naevius.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a year's provisions.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 170–c. 90 BC – Accius of the yearly course.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of annual magistrates.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of the year; [[m|en|annual]], yearly; paid or recurring every year.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(of magistrates)'' Holding office for one year.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Lasting a year; sufficient for a year, a year's.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[annuum]]

+ * [[semiannuus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[annus]]

+ * [[annālis]]

+ * [[perennis]]

+ * [[annōna]]

+ * [[biennium]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}