annona

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annona (plural annonas)

1. Custard apple (Annona)
   • 1842, Lady Maria Callcott, A Scripture Herbal, 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:

     This evergreen tree is the most tropical of the annonas.

   • 2004, Niir Board, Cultivation of Fruits, Vegetables and Floriculture, page 29:

     The edible annonas have important features which are given in Table 1.

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From Latin annōna.

annona f (plural annone)

1. ration

From annus (“year”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /anˈnoː.na/

annōna f (genitive annōnae); first declension

1. yearly produce, yearly income, annual output
2. corn, grain; means of subsistence
3. (metonymically) price of grain, or of some other food
4. (figuratively) the prices, the market
5. (military) provisions, supplies, rations

First declension.

• annōnārius

• Annōna

• Basque: anoa
• French: annone
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐌽𐍉 (annō)
• Italian: annona
• Spanish: anona
• Translingual: Annona

• 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, 1883–1887)
• annona in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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)
    
• 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