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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Varro|origins=la annus, la vertō}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [an.nɪ.wɛrˈsaː.ri.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [an.ni.verˈsaː.ri.us]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''anniversārius''' (feminine anniversāria, neuter anniversārium, adverb anniversāriē); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[annus]] “year” and [[vertō]] “to turn”, with the suffix [[-ārius]]: returning with the year.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's first citation is Varro, of things renewed every year.^(OLD 2012) Köbler's first source is Cicero.^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates Varro 116–27 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant engaged or renewed annually, as in Varro, recurring every year, and of games, festivals and sacrifices celebrated annually, as Cicero's yearly rites.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant annual, pertaining to an anniversary.^(Stelten 1995) In Medieval Latin it meant for obits, and as a noun ''anniversārium'' a birthday, the anniversary of a death, a yearly mass for the dead.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS) It survives in French ''anniversaire'', Italian ''anniversario'' and Spanish ''aniversario''.^(Wiktionary) [[en|anniversary]] came about 1200 from Medieval Latin ''anniversārium'', first of the day of a death or a martyrdom.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of annual renewal.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of yearly rites.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 1200 – English ''anniversary'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Adjective===
+ # Renewed annually.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Recurring every year; [[m|en|annual]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin, as noun)'' An [[m|en|anniversary]]; a yearly mass for the dead.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[annus]]
+ * [[vertō]]
+ * [[en|anniversary]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}