Borrowed fromLate Latinper annum, English from the 16th century.
Prepositional phrase
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- In ayear.
- For ayear.
1918,International Review of Agricultural Economics, volume 9, page917:Areas of no more than ten acres of crown land may be granted asbee-arms on annual licenses, the rent being one shilling an acreper annum.
In post-classical Latin (4th or 5th century) in reference to a sum of money due each year.Already in the 3rd century in the sense of "through the year". From the prepositionper(“through; during”) +annum, the accusative singular ofannus(“year”).
perannum (notcomparable)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seeper,annum;throughout theyear
- 1st century BC or AD, Ovid,Fasti, I, 1f. and III, 111f.; ed. and transl.:Ovid's Fasti with an English translation by Sir James George Frazer, 1959, p. 2f. and p. 128f.:
- Tempera cum causis Latium digestaper annum
lapsaque sub terras ortaque signa canam.- The order of the calendarthroughout the Latinyear, its causes, and the starry signs that set beneath the earth and rise again, of these I'll sing.
- libera currebant et inobservataper annum
sidera ; constabat sed tamen esse deos.- The stars ran their courses free and unmarkedthroughout the year ; yet everybody agreed that they were gods.
- (proscribed)per annum; peryear
