perenno

Latin

Etymology

perennis +‎

Pronunciation

Verb

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
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    • 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
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    • Col. 1.9.2:
      ut diutius perennent boves
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    • Col. 2.9.18
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.721:
      domus
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    • 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.
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  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.
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Conjugation

Synonyms

  • perannō

Descendants

  • English: perennate
  • Italian: perennare
  • Spanish: perennizar

Further reading

  • 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.