per annum

Etymology
Borrowed from, English from the 16th century.

Prepositional phrase

 * 1) In a year.
 * 2) For a year.

Synonyms

 * year, yearly, annually

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Dutch: per jaar
 * Finnish:, joka vuosi
 * Urdu: سالانہ


 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: par an

Etymology
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 preposition +, the accusative singular of.

Adverb
lapsaque sub terras ortaque signa canam. sidera ; constabat sed tamen esse deos.
 * 1)  throughout the year
 * 2) * 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 digesta per annum
 * The order of the calendar throughout the Latin year, its causes, and the starry signs that set beneath the earth and rise again, of these I'll sing.
 * libera currebant et inobservata per annum
 * The stars ran their courses free and unmarked throughout the year ; yet everybody agreed that they were gods.
 * 1)  ; per year