vannus Latin · revision 3568

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈwan.nʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈvan.nus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vannus''' ''f'' (genitive vannī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is traditionally explained as [[inh|itc-pro|*watnos]], from [[ine-pro|*h₂weh₁-|t=to blow]], and related to [[ventus]] “wind” and the diminutive [[vatillum]] “small shovel”.^(Wiktionary)^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Ernout and Meillet and Schrijver reject the link with ''vatillum''.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ The OLD compares [[en|winnow]] and [[grc|αἴνω|tr=aínō|t=to sift]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Virgil (70–19 BC), whose “mystic winnowing basket of Iacchus” was carried in the Bacchic rites.^(Köbler 2010)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a winnowing basket, in which threshed grain was shaken so that the husks were separated from it, as described by Columella.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) In the Eleusinian and Bacchic rites a winnowing basket, the ''mystica vannus Iacchi'', was carried in procession.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ De Vaan finds it from Columella onwards.^(de Vaan 2008) In Medieval Latin it also meant a basket.^(Köbler 2010) It survives as French ''van'' and Spanish and Portuguese ''abano'', and Old English ''fann'', the source of English ''fan'', was borrowed from it.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil mentions the ''mystica vannus Iacchi''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella describes winnowing with it.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius mentions it.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * Old English – ''fann'', a winnowing basket, is borrowed from it.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|winnowing]] basket, a [[m|en|fan]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A basket.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ventus]]

+ * [[en|fan]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}