what does "annos" under the year column mean?
Indexing baptism records from Zambia Church records, and come across the date columns of birth, and instead of noting down the day, month and year, it has number in the month and then the word "annos" or could be "ammos". Anno in latin means "in the year of" so that this mean the number under the month is the year, because the number was 14, and we only have 12 months.
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I think they're ages, but the clerk's grasp of Latin was almost as vague as mine. :-)
(Normally, ages are rendered in Latin as NN annorum "of NN years", using the genitive plural of the noun annus "year". This page appears to use the accusative plural, that is, the form that would belong in a sentence like "XY has lived NN years".)
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Don't know if this helps, but in various Germanic languages, "anno" (the Latin ablative form) followed by a specific year means "in the year X": e.g. anno 2024.
Source: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/anno#:~:text=Interlingua-,Noun,year%20quotations%20%E2%96%BC
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It may be a reference to the church indiction year (if these are Catholic records). The indiction runs on a 15-year cycle.
Unfortunately I can't see the link so I couldn't say more.
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