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

1. common eating-house (especially one used by prostitutes etc), greasy spoon

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	gānea	gāneae
genitive	gāneae	gāneārum
dative	gāneae	gāneīs
accusative	gāneam	gāneās
ablative	gāneā	gāneīs
vocative	gānea	gāneae

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’s 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