annum

Twelve-month period

Annum is the Latin word for year, surviving in English almost exclusively in the phrase per annum, meaning yearly or for each year.

It appears in financial and legal contexts: an interest rate of 5% per annum, a salary of $80,000 per annum.

duration

year

Twelve-month duration

lustrum · decade · century · per · salary · subscription · fee · rate · income · revenue

cycles

seasonal

Recurring at fixed intervals

migration · bloom · monsoon · planting · flowering · renewal · cyclical · recurring · revolving · rotation

measurement

chronology

Temporal ordering of events

  • epochDistinct historical period
  • eraDistinct historical period
  • ageDuration of existence

period · regnal · geochronology · radiocarbon · dendrochronology · dating · timespan · interval · span

calendar

January

Year's opening month

May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December · Gregorian · Julian

Opposites
time unit duration

annummoment

Brief period of time

instant · second · minute · eternity · day

Phrases
Family

annual, annually, biannual, annuity, semiannual, semiannually, biannually, per annum

Familiarity
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G