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Lateranus1

Lateranus1

a family name in the

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Where it lives

What it meant

1. Lătĕrānus — Lewis & Short

Lătĕrānus, a,

I a family name in the gens Claudia, Sextia, and Plautia.—So, Plautius Lateranus, Tac. A. 15, 49; 60; Juv. 8, 148.—The splendid mansion of these Laterani on Mons Caelius (egregiae Lateranorum aedes, Juv. 10, 17; and: Lateranae aedes, Prud. adv. Symm. 1, 587) was given by the emperor Constantine to the bishop of Rome; afterwards the seat of the popes; now the Lateran.

2. Lătĕrānus — Lewis & Short

Lătĕrānus, i, m.later,

I the god of the hearth (because hearths were made of bricks), Arn. 4, 130.

In the wild

6 of 15 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

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