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Latin
Etymology
per- (“throughout”) + annus (“ year”)
Pronunciation
Adjective
perennis (neuter perenne, adverb perenne); third-declension two-termination adjective
- perennial
- continual, everlasting, perpetual
- Synonyms: aeternus, assiduus, continuātus, perpetuus, continuus, diuturnus
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “perennis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “perennis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- perennis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a perpetual spring: aqua iugis, perennis
- “perennis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “perennis”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray