annona
English edit
Etymology edit
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Noun edit
annona (plural annonas)
- custard apple (tree of the genus Annona and its fruit)
- 1842, Lady Maria Callcott, A Scripture Herbal[1], page 21:
- The annona is called custard apple
- 1989, National Research Council (U.S.). Advisory Committee on Technology Innovation, Lost Crops of the Incas: Little-known Plants of the Andes with Promise for Worldwide Cultivation[2]:
- This evergreen tree is the most tropical of the annonas.
- 2004, Niir Board, Cultivation of Fruits, Vegetables and Floriculture[3], page 29:
- The edible annonas have important features which are given in Table 1.
Translations edit
tree of the genus Annona and their fruit
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References edit
- annona on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Annona on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
annona f (plural annone)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *atnoznā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂étnos (“year”) + *(s)h₁osnéh₂ (“harvest”), the first element equivalent to annus; compare Proto-Germanic *asnō (“harvest, earning, wage”) for the second element.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /anˈnoː.na/, [änˈnoːnä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /anˈno.na/, [änˈnɔːnä]
Noun edit
annōna f (genitive annōnae); first declension
- yearly produce, yearly income, annual output
- corn, grain; means of subsistence
- (metonymically) price of grain, or of some other food
- (figuratively) the prices, the market
- (military) provisions, supplies, rations
- Synonym: commeātus
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | annōna | annōnae |
Genitive | annōnae | annōnārum |
Dative | annōnae | annōnīs |
Accusative | annōnam | annōnās |
Ablative | annōnā | annōnīs |
Vocative | annōna | annōnae |
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References edit
- “annona”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “annona”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- annona in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- annona in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[4], London: Macmillan and Co.
- want of corn; scarcity in the corn-market: difficultas annonae (Imp. Pomp. 15. 44)
- the price of corn is going up: annona ingravescit, crescit
- the price of corn is going down: annona laxatur, levatur, vilior fit
- dearth of corn; high prices: caritas annonae (opp. vilitas), also simply annona
- corn had gone up to 50 denarii the bushel: ad denarios L in singulos modios annona pervenerat
- corn is dear: annona cara est
- when corn is as dear as it is: hac annona (Plaut. Trin. 2. 4. 83)
- want of corn; scarcity in the corn-market: difficultas annonae (Imp. Pomp. 15. 44)
- “annona”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “annona”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin