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Latin
Etymology
Likely a borrowing from a West Semitic language; compare Hebrew גַּן (gan, “garden”), Ancient Greek γάνος (gános, “id”), the latter also borrowed from Semitic. The shift from "garden" > "eating-house" has semantic parallels to that of German Biergarten (“beer garden”).[1]
Noun
gānea f (genitive gāneae); first declension
- common eating-house (especially one used by prostitutes etc), greasy spoon
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “ganea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ganea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ganea 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)
- ganea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “ganea”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ganea”, 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, page 254