ganea

== Latin == === Alternative forms === ganeum === Etymology === Likely a borrowing from a West Semitic language; compare Hebrew גַּן (gan, “garden”), Ancient Greek γάνος (gános, “id”), the latter also borrowed from Semitic. The shift from "garden" > "eating-house" has semantic parallels to that of German Biergarten (“beer garden”). === Noun === gānea f (genitive gāneae); first declension common eating-house (especially one used by prostitutes etc), greasy spoon ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== gāneō ==== Descendants ==== Through the variant gāneum: Italo-Romance: Italian: gagno === References === “ganea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ganea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "ganea", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “ganea”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “ganea”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “ganea”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin