gānea
Meaning
- common eating-house (especially one used by prostitutes etc), greasy spoon
Choosing the right word Döderlein's Latin Synonyms
Deversorium · Hospitium · Caupona · Taberna · Popina · Ganeum
Deversorium is any house of reception on a journey, whether one’s own property, or that of one’s friends, or of inn-keepers; hospitium, an inn for the reception of strangers; caupona (from καρποῦσθαι?) a tavern kept by a publican. These establishments afford lodging as well as food; whereas tabernæ, popinæ, ganea, only food, like restaurateurs; tabernæ (from trabes?), for the common people, as eating-houses; popinæ (from popa, πέψαι), for gentlefolks and gourmands, like ordinaries; ganea (from ἀγανός?), for voluptuaries. (vi. 101.)
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | gānea | gāneae |
| genitive | gāneae gāneī | gāneārum gāneōrum |
| dative | gāneae gāneō | gāneīs |
| accusative | gāneam | gāneās |
| ablative | gāneā gāneō | gāneīs |
| vocative | gānea | gāneae |
paulisper stetimus in illo ganearum tuarum nidore atque fumo, Cic. Pis. 6, 13: libido stupri, ganeae ceterique cultus non minor incesserat, Sall. C. 13, 3: in ganea lustrisque senectutem acturum, Liv. 26, 2, 15; Plin. 8, 51, 77, § 209; Plin. Pan. 49, 6: ventris et ganeae paratus, Tac. A. 3, 52: sumptu ganeaque satiare inexplebiles Vitellii libidines, by prodigal feasts, id. H. 2, 95; Suet. Calig. 11; Gell. 9, 2, 6 al.—immersit aliquo sese, credo, in ganeum, Plaut. Men. 5, 1, 3; id. As. 5, 2, 37; Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 5; Varr. ap. Non. 208, 15; Prud. Psych. 343.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
Origins
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”).
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