A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Annus,-i (s.m.II), abl. sg. anno: a year, q.v.;

- anno Domini, in the year [of our] Lord; abbrev. A.D.

- die 2 Januarii anni 1980 lecta, collected on day 2 of January of the year 1980.

- anno vertente, in the course of a year.

- ANNO MD C XCV, in the year 1645.

- per totum annuum; fructificans Oct. Nov., throughout the entire year: fruiting October, November.

- herba annua dicitur, quae eodem anno nata flore fructuque perfectis moritur, ut frumenta (Tourn.), an herb is called ‘annual,’ which, having been born, dies in the same year, after the the flower and fruit have been perfected, as in grain crops.

- Bima vero, Trimave, quae intra spatium duorum vel trium annorum sua tempora perficit (Tourn.), in fact [an herb is herba] ‘bima’ [i.e. continuing two years], or [herba] ‘trima’ [i.e. continuing three years], that, within the space of two or three years, completes it’s own [i.e. particular] lifetime.

- anno sexto reipublicae Gallicae [1798] (Desf.); in the sixth year of the French Republic.

- [moss] Phascum cum Bryo omnino congruit. Illud CEL.LINNAEUs dignoscit, separatque forte absentia calyptrarum, quas nos anno 1760 deteximus & delineavimus annis 1765, 1768 (Necker), [the genus] Phascum corresponds in all particulars with [the genus] Bryum. This the celebrated Linnaeus distinguished and separated [them] perhaps in the absence of calyptas, which we had detected in the year 1760, and illustrated in the years 1765 and 1768.

Manuscripts and books:

- “(Apud Io. Heruagium, mense Martio anno 1537 = At the shop of Johann Herwagen, in the month of March, the year 1537” (Maxwell 1998).

- “anno Domini 1550 = In the year of our Lord 1550, i.e., A.D. 1550 or 1550 Common/Christian Era)” (Maxwell 1998).