The corpus record — Latin

ganea

ganea · f

an eating-house

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Where it lives

Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Tiberius 1 · 1.1/10k
Catilina 1 · 0.94/10k
Apologia 2 · 0.93/10k
Pro P. Sestio 1 · 0.6/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 26 1 · 0.59/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Annales 2 · 0.23/10k
Historiae 1 · 0.19/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

gānĕa — Lewis & Short

gānĕa, ae, f., and gānĕum, i, n.for gas-nea, kindr. to Sanscr ghas, to eat, qs. locus edendi,

I an eating-house, cook-shop, ordinary; also in bad repute as the abode of prostitutes.

(a) Form ganea: paulisper stetimus in illo ganearum tuarum nidore atque fumo, Cic. Pis. 6, 13: libido stupri, ganeae ceterique cultus non minor incesserat, Sall. C. 13, 3: in ganea lustrisque senectutem acturum, Liv. 26, 2, 15; Plin. 8, 51, 77, § 209; Plin. Pan. 49, 6: ventris et ganeae paratus, Tac. A. 3, 52: sumptu ganeaque satiare inexplebiles Vitellii libidines, by prodigal feasts, id. H. 2, 95; Suet. Calig. 11; Gell. 9, 2, 6 al.—

(b) Form ganeum (ante-class.): immersit aliquo sese, credo, in ganeum, Plaut. Men. 5, 1, 3; id. As. 5, 2, 37; Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 5; Varr. ap. Non. 208, 15; Prud. Psych. 343.

In the wild

ganea Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.26.2.15
ganeis Cicero, Pro P. Sestio 20.p2
ganeasque Suetonius, Tiberius 34.1
ganeas Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 28.4.3
ganeaque Tacitus, Historiae 2.100
ganeas Historia Augusta, Commodus Antoninus 2

6 of 20 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.