anniversary

• n. 記念日

語根ann、年。語根verse、回す。

anniversary

anniversary: [13] Like annual, anniversary is based ultimately on Latin annus ‘year’. The underlying idea it contains is of ‘yearly turning’ or ‘returning’; the Latin adjective anniversārius was based on annus and versus ‘turning’ (related to a wide range of English words, from verse and convert to vertebra and vertigo). This was used in phrases such as diēs anniversāria ‘day returning every year’, and eventually became a noun in its own right.
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anniversary (n.)

early 13c., originally especially of the day of a person's death, from Medieval Latin anniversarium, from Latin anniversarius (adj.) "returning annually," from annus (genitive anni) "year" (see annual (adj.)) + versus, past participle of vertere "to turn" (see versus). The adjective came to be used as a noun in Church Latin as anniversaria (dies) in reference to saints' days. An Old English word for "anniversary" (n.) was myndd?g, literally "mind-day."

1. Campaigners lit scores of bonfires in ceremonies to mark the anniversary .

運動に参加した人々は、さまざまな儀式に焚き火をつけて周年の祝典を記念した。

2.The Vietnamese government has fixed on May 19 th to celebrate his anniversary .

ベトナム政府は5月19日に誕生日を祝うことを決めた。

3.It was the fortieth anniversary of the death of the composer.

作曲家の没後40周年の記念日である。

4.Next year will be the 60 th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition.

来年は禁酒令廃止60周年になる。

5.The bank celebrates its hundredth anniversary in December.

この銀行は12月に設立100周年を祝う。