per annum
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Late Latin per annum, English from the 16th century.
Prepositional phrase[edit]
- In a year.
- For a year.
- 1918, International Review of Agricultural Economics, volume 9, page 917:
- Areas of no more than ten acres of crown land may be granted as bee-arms on annual licenses, the rent being one shilling an acre per annum.
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
in a year
for each year
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
In post-classical Latin (4th or 5th century) in reference to a sum of money due each year. Already in the 3rd century in the sense of "through the year". From the preposition per (“through; during”) + annum, the accusative singular of annus (“year”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /per ˈan.num/, [pɛr ˈänːʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /per ˈan.num/, [pɛr ˈänːum]
Adverb[edit]
per annum (not comparable)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see per, annum; throughout the year
- 1st century BC or AD, Ovid, Fasti, I, 1f. and III, 111f.; ed. and transl.: Ovid's Fasti with an English translation by Sir James George Frazer, 1959, p. 2f. and p. 128f.:
- Tempera cum causis Latium digesta per annum
lapsaque sub terras ortaque signa canam.- The order of the calendar throughout the Latin year, its causes, and the starry signs that set beneath the earth and rise again, of these I'll sing.
- libera currebant et inobservata per annum
sidera ; constabat sed tamen esse deos.- The stars ran their courses free and unmarked throughout the year ; yet everybody agreed that they were gods.
- Tempera cum causis Latium digesta per annum
- 1st century BC or AD, Ovid, Fasti, I, 1f. and III, 111f.; ed. and transl.: Ovid's Fasti with an English translation by Sir James George Frazer, 1959, p. 2f. and p. 128f.:
- (proscribed) per annum; per year