The corpus record — Latin

Jana

man

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What it meant

1. jana- — de Vaan

jana- 'man'^yVfoas·- (lx RV) 'race'. YAv. zizana- 'to bear', zaiia- 'to be bom\ zata'born'; a-sna- (< IE *-gnhro- 'born') 'inherent'; Khotysan- 'to give birth', Sogd. znft to bring forth'. Pllr, *janHtar- 'progenitor^ SkL janitor- [m.], janitar- [m,] (in the RV only withjajana)JanitrT- [f.] Mother'; Sktjaniman- [n.] 'birth, origin, creature, kind9, janman- [n.] 'birth, origin*; Pllr. *jaHtu- 'birth' > Skt.ya/w … — [de Vaan, s.v. jana-, p. 275]

2. Jana — Lewis & Short

Jana, ae, f., for

I Diana, the moon-goddess, Varr. R. R. 1, 37, 3; Macr. S. 1, 9; cf. the letter D.—

II The goddess of doors and passages, Tert. adv. Nat. 2, 15.

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.