afannae

Jocular formation after Ancient Greek ἀφανής (aphanḗs, “unseen”). Compare apinae of similar meaning.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈfan.nae̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈfan.ne]

afannae f pl (genitive afannārum); first declension (plural only, hapax legomenon)

1. trifles, nonsense

First-declension noun, plural only.

• gerrae

• afannae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “afannae”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 14a
• “afannae” in volume I, column 1170, line 63–68 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present