The corpus record — Latin

fanum1

shrine, temple, consecrated place

Figures and citations on this page are drawn from the audited Latin corpus; none are written from memory.

Distribution

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
De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites 3 · 4.5/10k
De vita Hadriani 2 · 3.9/10k
Apocolocyntosis 1 · 3.69/10k

Densest 12 of 74 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

Senses

1. fanum — de Vaan

shrine, temple, consecrated place

2. fānum — Lewis & Short

a place dedicated to some deity by forms of consecration

3. Fanum — Lewis & Short

a city in Umbria

Deep etymology

Authority pointers, pending review

These are the etymology authorities that treat this word, with their exact locators. They are bibliographic pointers, not a published word history: no root, reconstruction, derivation, cognate, or origin is asserted here.

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) scan p. 215; entry #523 Review: Under source audit
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine scan pp. 239-240; entry #3707 Review: Under source audit

The authorities' own wording is withheld pending review. Each source's identity, locator, and review status are cited above.

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