vannus

For Proto-Italic *watnos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”). Confer with the diminutive vatillum. Cognate with Latin ventus, Ancient Greek ἄημι (áēmi), Middle High German winden (“to winnow”), Icelandic vinsa (“to pick out, weed”), English winnow.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwan.nus/, [ˈwan.nʊs]

vannus f (genitive vanni); second declension

1. a winnowing basket

Second declension.

• vannō

• Dutch: wan
• English: fan, van
• French: van
• ⇒ Portuguese: abano
• ⇒ Galician: abano
• Italian: vanni

• vannus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vannus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vannus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• vannus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• vannus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vannus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag