ianua

== Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂- (“to go, go in, travel”). Cognate with Old Church Slavonic ꙗдо (jado, “to travel”) and Sanskrit यान (yāna, “path”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈjaː.nu.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈjaː.nu.a] === Noun === iānua f (genitive iānuae); first declension any double-doored entrance (e.g. a domestic door or a gate to a temple or city) an entrance, entry, access Synonyms: ingressus, ingressiō, līmen, initium, foris, porta, vestibulum Antonym: abitus ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== iānitor iānuārius ==== Related terms ==== Iānus ==== Descendants ==== === References === Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “janua”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 5: J L, page 29 === Further reading === ianua in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti “ianua”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “ianua”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “ianua”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers