perennis
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
per- (“throughout”) + annus (“[the] year”)
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) 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.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | 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