fanum

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fānum (“shrine”). Doublet of fane.

Noun

fanum (plural fana)

  1. (historical) The site of an Ancient Roman temple or shrine.

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French

Noun

fanum m (plural fanums)

  1. fanum

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *faznom, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁s-nó-m, from *dʰéh₁s (“god; sacred place”). See fēriae, fēstus. Compare also Etruscan 𐌚𐌀𐌍𐌖 (fanu), 𐌘𐌀𐌍𐌖 (φanu), 𐌇𐌀𐌍𐌖 (hanu, “templet, sacrarium, funerary chapel”).

Pronunciation

Noun

fānum n (genitive fānī); second declension

  1. shrine, temple, sanctuary, place dedicated to a deity
    Synonyms: templum, dēlūbrum, sacellum, āra
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.755–756:
      ‘dā veniam culpae, nec, dum dēgrandinet, obsit
      agrestī fānō supposuisse pecūs.’
      ‘‘Give mercy to my fault; neither let it be held against me while hail was pouring down I sheltered my flock in a rustic shrine.’’
      (Begging the mercy of Pales, Ovid humorously defies convention by including a realistic example from rural life.)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fānum fāna
Genitive fānī fānōrum
Dative fānō fānīs
Accusative fānum fāna
Ablative fānō fānīs
Vocative fānum fāna

Derived terms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Italian: Fano
  • Occitan: Fan
  • Portuguese: Fão

References

  • “fanum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “fanum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fanum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • fanum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “fanum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “fanum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Old English

Noun

fanum

  1. dative plural of fana

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fanum.

Noun

fanum n (plural fanumuri)

  1. fanum

Declension

Declension of fanum
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) fanum fanumul (niște) fanumuri fanumurile
genitive/dative (unui) fanum fanumului (unor) fanumuri fanumurilor
vocative fanumule fanumurilor

References

  • fanum in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
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