The corpus record — Latin

fanum1

shrine, temple, consecrated place

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Where it lives

Rudens 28 · 23.6/10k
Lysander 1 · 18.52/10k
Timoleon 1 · 12.08/10k
Pausanias 1 · 11.34/10k
Curculio 5 · 8.11/10k
Agesilaus 1 · 7.2/10k
Aulularia 4 · 5.79/10k
De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 4 · 5.31/10k
In C. Verrem 53 · 5.28/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 8 · 4.59/10k
De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites 3 · 4.5/10k
De vita Hadriani 2 · 3.9/10k

Densest 12 of 89 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. fanum — de Vaan

fanum 'shrine, temple, consecrated place' [n. o] (PL+) Derivatives: hanula (Paul, ex F.) 'small temples', Janare 'to dedicate' (Varro+), — [de Vaan, s.v. fanum, p. 215]

2. fānum — Lewis & Short

fānum, i, n.fari; cf. Varr. L. L. 6, § 54 Müll.; Paul. ex Fest. p. 88, 1, and 93, 17 Müll.; Cic. Div. 1, 41, 90,

I a place dedicated to some deity by forms of consecration, a sanctuary, temple (syn.: templum, aedes, delubrum, cella, sacellum, sacrarium): in ea pugna Jovis Statoris aedem votam, ut Romulus ante voverat: sed fa num tantum, id est locus templo effatus, sacratus fuerat, Liv. 10, 37 fin.; Sen. Ben. 7, 7: eamque unam ob causam Xerxes inflammari Atheniensium fana jussisse dicitur, quod deos inclusos parietibus contineri nefas esse duceret, Cic. Rep. 3, 9: pro patriis fanis atque delubris propugnandum, id. Rab. Perd. 10, 30: de aris ac focis, de fanis ac templis, id. Cat. 4, 11, 24: fana templaque expilavit, Suet. Caes. 54: propter fani religionem, Cic. Inv. 2, 1, 1: fanum antiquissimum et sanctissimum, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 20, § 54: Dianae Ephesi, Caes. B. C. 3, 33, 1: Junonis, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 20, § 52: Herculis, Caes. B. C. 2, 18, 1: Hammonis, Lucr. 6, 848: Eumenidum, Cic. N. D. 3, 18, 46; Vulg. Judic. 9, 4 al.

3. Fanum — Lewis & Short

Fanum, i, n.,

I a city in Umbria, on the Adriatic Sea, with a celebrated temple of Fortuna, now Fano, Caes. B. C. 1, 11 fin.; called also Fanum Fortunae, Plin. 3, 14, 19, § 113; Tac. H. 3, 50; Inscr. Orell. 83 and 84; and Colonia Fanestris, Vitr. 2, 9, 16; 5, 1, 6; cf. Inscr. Orell. 1535; 3143; 3969.

In the wild

6 of 333 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. fanum (scan p. 215; entry #523).
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. fanum (scan pp. 239-240; entry #3707).

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