Annona (disambiguation)

Annona (disambiguation)

Annona can refer to any of the following

*Annona, plant genus
*Annona, a settlement in Red River County, Texas.

A Latin word (from the Latin "annus", year), meaning (in the context of in the Roman empire):

*Annona (goddess), personification of plenty; the produce of the yearly harvest, etc.
* the corn dole to citizens, distributed from a statio annonae
* the produce of the year's harvest
* all means of subsistence, especially grain stored in the public granaries for provisioning the city
*The grain supply to the city of Rome in general
* the market price of commodities, especially corn
* a direct tax in kind, levied in republican times in several provinces, chiefly employed in imperial times for distribution amongst officials and the support of the soldiery


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