fanum

See also: Fanum

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.

Related terms

• profane

Anagrams

• manuf.

French

Noun

fanum m (plural fanums)

1. fanum

Further reading

• “fanum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.nũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.num]

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 [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.)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	fānum	fāna
genitive	fānī	fānōrum
dative	fānō	fānīs
accusative	fānum	fāna
ablative	fānō	fānīs
vocative	fānum	fāna

Derived terms

• fānāticē
• fānāticus
• fānitālis
• fānō
• fānulum
• profānus

Descendants

(All toponyms)

• French: Fâ
• 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	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	fanum	fanumul		fanumuri	fanumurile
genitive-dative	fanum	fanumului		fanumuri	fanumurilor
vocative	fanumule			fanumurilor

References

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