The corpus record — Latin

ianus

arched passage, doorway; god of gates and doors

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

De vita Hadriani 1 · 1.95/10k

What it meant

ianus — de Vaan

ianus 'arched passage, doorway; god of gates and doors' [m. ο] (P1.+; w-stem only in Fest.; VLat. ienuarius, PRom. *ienua) Derivatives: ianua 'door, entrance' (P1.+), lanualis 'of Janus' (Varro), Ianuarius [adj.] '(month) of Janus' (Varro+), ianitor 'doorkeeper' (P1.+), ianitrix 'female doorkeeper' (PL+). Pit. *janu- 'door1. PIE *ieh2-n-u- 'passage'. IE cognates: Olr. ath 'ford, passage' < PCI. *jafl/-; Skt. — [de Vaan, s.v. ianus, p. 308]

In the wild

ianus Historia Augusta, De vita Hadriani 3

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. ianus (scan p. 308; entry #793). Root candidates: *janu-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. ianus (scan p. 329; entry #5196).

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.