perennis
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]per- (“throughout”) + annus (“[the] year”)
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /peˈren.nis/, [pɛˈrɛnːɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /peˈren.nis/, [peˈrɛnːis]
Adjective
[edit]perennis (neuter perenne, adverb perenne); third-declension two-termination adjective
Declension
[edit]Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | perennis | perenne | perennēs | perennia | |
| genitive | perennis | perennium | |||
| dative | perennī | perennibus | |||
| accusative | perennem | perenne | perennēs perennīs |
perennia | |
| ablative | perennī | perennibus | |||
| vocative | perennis | perenne | perennēs | perennia | |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: perenne
- French: pérenne
- Galician: perenne
- Italian: perenne
- Portuguese: perene
- Romanian: peren
- Spanish: perenne
References
[edit]- “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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- a perpetual spring: aqua iugis, perennis
- 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