vannus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *watnos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”). Compare with the diminutive vatillum. Cognate with Latin ventus, Ancient Greek ἄημι (áēmi), Middle High German winden (“to winnow”), Icelandic vinsa (“to pick out, weed”), English winnow.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯an.nus/, [ˈu̯änːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvan.nus/, [ˈvänːus]

Noun

vannus f (genitive vannī); second declension

1. a winnowing basket

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vannus	vannī
Genitive	vannī	vannōrum
Dative	vannō	vannīs
Accusative	vannum	vannōs
Ablative	vannō	vannīs
Vocative	vanne	vannī

Derived terms

• vannō

Descendants

• French: van
• → Proto-West Germanic: *wannu (see there for further descendants)
• ⇒ *advannus
  • Galician: abano
  • Portuguese: abano
  • Spanish: abano

References

• “vannus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vannus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vannus 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)
• vannus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “vannus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “vannus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag