Ianus

See also: ianus and -ianus

English

Proper noun

Ianus

1. Alternative form of Janus (“the god”).

Latin

Etymology

From iānus (“arcade, covered passageway”), from Proto-Italic *jānos, from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂- (“to go, go in, travel”). Cognate with Old Church Slavonic ꙗхати (jaxati, “to travel”) and Sanskrit यान (yāna, “path”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈjaː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈjaː.nus]

Proper noun

Iānus m sg (genitive Iānī); second declension

1. The god Janus.

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Iānus
genitive	Iānī
dative	Iānō
accusative	Iānum
ablative	Iānō
vocative	Iāne

Derived terms

• iānua
• iānuārius

Related terms

• iānus

References

• “Ianus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers