annal

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a record of an event or of the events of one year in a historical chronicle, now most often used in the plural annals

   The discovery secured a place in the annals of medical history.

A back-formation from annals, borrowed through French from Latin annales, 'yearly records.' The Latin adjective comes from annus, 'year,' because early annals recorded events year by year.

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