perenno

perennis +‎ -ō

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /peˈren.noː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /peˈren.no/,

perennō (present infinitive perennāre, perfect active perennāvī, supine perennātum); first conjugation

1. (transitive, post-Augustan) to keep or preserve long
   • Col. 12.20.8:

     ea res, etiamsi non in totum perennat, certe usque in alteram vindemiam plerumque vini saporem servat

   • Col. 12.19.2
2. (intransitive, in poetry and in post-Augustan prose) to last for many years, to last, continue, endure
   • 2 CE, Ovid, The Art of Love 3.42:

     arte perennat amor

   • Col. 1.9.2:

     ut diutius perennent boves

   • Col. 2.9.18
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.721:

     domus

   • c. 250 CE, Solinus, De mirabilibus mundi 52.28:

     Apud Ctesiam legitur quasdam feminas ibi semel parere natosque canos ilico fieri; esse rursum gentem alteram, quae in iuuenta cana sit, nigrescat in senectute, ultra aeui nostri terminos perennantem.

3. (intransitive, Late Latin) to last for a year
   • c. 431 CE, Macrobius, Saturnalia 1.12.6:

     Huius etiam prima die ignem novum Vestae aris accendebant, ut incipiente anno cura denuo servandi novati ignis inciperet: eodem quoque ingrediente mense tam in regia curiisque atque flaminum domibus laureae veteres novis laureis mutabantur: eodem quoque mense et publice et privatim ad Annam Perennam sacrificatum itur, ut annare perennareque commode liceat.

• perannō

• “pĕrenno”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pĕrenno in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,145/2.