FromProto-Indo-European*yeh₂-(“to go, go in, travel”). Cognate withOld Church Slavonicꙗдо(jado,“to travel”) andSanskritयान(yāna,“path”).
iānua f (genitiveiānuae);first declension
- any double-dooredentrance (e.g. a domesticdoor or agate to a temple or city)
- anentrance,entry,access
- Synonyms:ingressus,ingressiō,līmen,initium,foris,porta,vestibulum
- Antonym:abitus
First-declension noun.
- Insular Romance:
- Italo-Romance:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Gascon:jan,janc(“louvered door”)(Pyrenean)
- Ibero-Romance:
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin:
- Borrowings:
- ianua in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
- “ianua”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ianua”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894),Latin Phrase-Book[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
- to burst open the door:ianuam effringere, revellere
- “ianua”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers