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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin fānum (“shrine”). Doublet of fane.
Noun[edit]
fanum (plural fana)
- (historical) The site of an Ancient Roman temple or shrine.
Related terms[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Noun[edit]
fanum m (plural fanums)
Further reading[edit]
- “fanum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfaː.num/, [ˈfäːnʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfa.num/, [ˈfäːnum]
Noun[edit]
fānum n (genitive fānī); second declension
- shrine, temple, sanctuary, place dedicated to a deity
- 43 BCE – c. 17 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 [that] 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.)
- ‘‘Give mercy to my fault; neither let it be held against me [that] while hail was pouring down I sheltered my flock in a rustic shrine.’’
- ‘dā veniam culpae, nec, dum dēgrandinet, obsit
Declension[edit]
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[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “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)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Old English[edit]
Noun[edit]
fanum
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
fanum n (plural fanumuri)
Declension[edit]
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 | ||
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