ganeo Latin · revision 36840

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 235–200 BC, Naevius|origins=la gānea}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''gāneō''' ''m'' (genitive gāneōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|gānea|-ō|t1=eating-house, low tavern]],^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Georges 1913) or from [[m|la|gāneum]], the same noun.^(TLL) De Vaan takes this noun to be probably a loanword and compares a West Semitic word for “garden”, the source also of [[grc|γάνος|tr=gános|t=pleasure garden]], a Cypriot word.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Naevius is the first to use it, in a comedy.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Terence puts it in a string of insults beside ''gerrō'', ''iners'', ''fraus'' and ''helluō''.^(Lewis & Short 1879) In the second speech against Catiline Cicero lists it beside ''parricīda'', [[nepōs]] “spendthrift” and ''adulter'',^(Lewis & Short 1879) and elsewhere he calls a man a curly-haired glutton.^(Conte 2010) Sallust, Seneca and Tacitus use it of the debauched;^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) Tacitus contrasts a ''gāneō'' with a man of refined luxury.^(Conte 2010) Lactantius sets it against the self-controlled man.^(Georges 1913)

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+ The grammarian Priscian claimed that the word occurs only in the nominative and accusative, which Georges shows to be false.^(Georges 1913) Prudentius scans the first syllable short.^(Georges 1913)^(TLL) Medieval writers used it for a glutton or wastrel,^(MLW) and British glossaries also for a scoundrel and for an innkeeper or a frequenter of inns.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 235–200 BC – Naevius uses it in a comedy.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it among insults.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it in the speeches against Catiline.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus contrasts it with refined luxury.^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|glutton]], [[m|en|debauchee]], a frequenter of taverns.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A scoundrel, a dirty rascal.^(DMLBS)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' An [[m|en|innkeeper]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[gānea]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}