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perenne m or f (masculine and feminine plural perennes)

perennement
perennifoli
any
“perenne”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

perenne m or f by sense (plural perenni)

perenne f (plural perenni)

perenne (not comparable)

all year, year-round
constantly, perpetually
- 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 3.654:
  amne perenne latēns Annā Perennā vocor.
  Hidden perpetually by the current, I am called Anna Perenna.
  (The ancient Romans celebrated the festival of river goddess Anna Perenna on the Ides of March.)

“perenne”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“perenne”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

perenne m or f (plural perennes)

Learned borrowing from Latin perennis, from per- (“through”) +‎ annus (“year”) +‎ -is (adjectival suffix), literally “throughout the year”.

perenne m or f (masculine and feminine plural perennes)