silanus

== Latin == === Etymology === From Doric Greek σῑλᾱνός (sīlānós). Doublet of sīlēnus, Sīlēnus, and Silvānus, and cognate with Attic Greek σῑληνός (sīlēnós). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [siːˈɫaː.nʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [siˈlaː.nus] === Noun === sīlānus m (genitive sīlānī); second declension (poetic) a jet or stream of water (or some other liquid) arching through the air, such as one issued from a fountain ==== Usage notes ==== Often glossed as "fountain" in traditional dictionaries, which is misleading, because sīlānus does not refer to water fixtures, but rather the stream of water itself. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. === Further reading === “sīlānus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “sīlānus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. silanus in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung