yearly (adj.) Copy link Outline 1. annuus (in prose generally lasting through the year, in poetry, recurring every year, but rarely thus in prose)2. annĭversārius (recurring as the year comes round) • yearly (adj.): 1. annuus (in prose generally lasting through the year, in poetry, recurring every year, but rarely thus in prose): the y. changes of the seasons, annuae commutationes, Cic. Inv. 1, 48, 59: offer the y. sacrifices to great Ceres, a. magnae sacra refer Cereri, Virg. G. 1, 338. 2. annĭversārius (recurring as the year comes round): y. sacrifices, a. sacra, Cic. Verr. 4, 39, 84: the swiftness of the heavens accomplishing their y. changes, impetus caeli conficiens vicissitudines a., Cic. N. D. 2, 38, 97. Phr.: the honour was increased by the offer off a y. salary of five hundred thousand sesterces, honor auctus est oblatis in singulos annos quingenis sestertiis, Tac. A. 13, 34.