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+ ==Forms==

+ '''gānea''' ''f'' (genitive gāneae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The origin is uncertain.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan treats it with the older neuter [[gāneum]] and thinks it probably a loanword: in form and meaning it may be connected with West Semitic words for a garden, such as [[hbo|גַּן|tr=gan|t=garden]], the source also of [[grc|γάνος|tr=gános|t=pleasure garden]]; for the meaning he compares eating-places named after gardens, like [[de|Biergarten]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Lewis and Short had derived it from a form with /sn/, akin to [[sa|घस्|tr=ghas|t=to eat]], as a place for eating.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler record ''gānea'' first in Cicero,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) who speaks of standing for a while in the smell and smoke of someone's eating-houses, ''in illo ganearum tuarum nidore atque fumo''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It named a common eating-house or cook-shop, typically the resort of disreputable people and also of prostitutes.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) By metonymy it meant gluttonous eating and debauchery: Cicero describes a man worn out by wine, gluttony, pimping and adultery, Sallust names a passion for ''ganeae'' beside lust, and Tacitus speaks of satisfying the insatiable appetites of Vitellius with lavish feasts and gluttony.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ In Medieval Latin it kept the senses eating-house and feasting, and was used of a theatre and of a harlot;^(DMLBS)^(Niermeyer 1976) Niermeyer gives the classical sense as brothel and the medieval one as harlot.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of eating-houses and of gluttony.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust uses it among the vices of his time.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses ''in ganea lustrisque''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of the feasts of Vitellius.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A common [[m|en|eating-house]], [[m|en|cookshop|alt=cook-shop]], frequented by disreputable people.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(by metonymy)'' [[m|en|gluttony|alt=Gluttony]], debauchery.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|harlot]].^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[ganearius]]

+ * [[gāneō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[gāneum]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The neuter [[gāneum]] is the pre-classical form, found in Plautus and Terence.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}