The story
- Latin · derived fromannālēs librī“chronicles”
- Middle French · borrowed fromannales
- English todayannals
Borrowed from Middle French annales, from Latin annālēs librī (“chronicles”), from annālis (“pertaining to a year”), from annus (“year”) + librī, plural of liber (“book”). Compare with annual.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.