# annona
## English
### Etymology

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### Noun

annona (plural annonas)
* custard apple (tree of the genus Annona and its fruit)
** 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.

#### Translations
### References

* annona on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Annona on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin annōna.

### Noun

annona f (plural annone)
* ration

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *atnoznā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂étnos (“year”) + *(s)h₁osnéh₂ (“harvest”), the first element equivalent to annus; compare Proto-Germanic *asnō (“harvest, earning, wage”) for the second element.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /anˈnoː.na/, [änˈnoːnä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /anˈno.na/, [änˈnɔːnä]

### Noun

annōna f (genitive annōnae); first declension
* yearly produce, yearly income, annual output
* corn, grain; means of subsistence
* (metonymically) price of grain, or of some other food
* (figuratively) the prices, the market
* (military) provisions, supplies, rations
    Synonym: commeātus

#### Declension

First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | annōna | annōnae |
| Genitive | annōnae | annōnārum |
| Dative | annōnae | annōnīs |
| Accusative | annōnam | annōnās |
| Ablative | annōnā | annōnīs |
| Vocative | annōna | annōnae |

#### Derived terms

* annōnārius

#### Related terms

* Annōna

#### Descendants

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

### References

* “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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