ianus

== Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *jānos, from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂- (“to go, go in, travel”). Cognate with Sanskrit यान (yāna, “path”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈjaː.nʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈjaː.nus] === Noun === iānus m (genitive iānī); second declension arcade; covered passageway ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== iānua iānuārius Iānus === References === "ianus", 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) “ianus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “ianus”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929), Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press