Borrowed fromLatinfānum(“shrine”).Doublet offane.
fanum (pluralfana)
- (historical) The site of an Ancient Romantemple orshrine.
fanum m (pluralfanums)
- fanum
FromProto-Italic*faznom, fromProto-Indo-European*dʰh₁s-nó-m, from*dʰéh₁s(“god; sacred place”). Seefēriae,fēstus. Compare alsoEtruscan𐌚𐌀𐌍𐌖(fanu),𐌘𐌀𐌍𐌖(φanu),𐌇𐌀𐌍𐌖(hanu,“templet, sacrarium, funerary chapel”).
fānum n (genitivefānī);second declension
- shrine,temple,sanctuary, place dedicated to a deity
- Synonyms:templum,dēlūbrum,sacellum,āra
8CE,
Ovid,
Fasti4.755–756:
- ‘dā veniam culpae, nec, dum dēgrandinet, obsit
agrestīfānō supposuisse pecūs.’- ‘‘Give mercy to my fault; neither let it be held against me [that] while hail was pouring down I sheltered my flockin a rusticshrine.’’
(Begging the mercy ofPales, Ovid humorously defies convention by including a realistic example from rural life.)
Second-declension noun (neuter).
- “fanum”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fanum”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "fanum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- fanum inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “fanum”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “fanum”, inWilliam 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)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN
fanum
- dativeplural offana
Borrowed fromLatinfanum.
fanum n (pluralfanumuri)
- fanum
- fanum in Academia Română,Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010.→ISBN
