ianua

From Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂- (“to go, go in, travel”). Cognate with Old Church Slavonic ꙗдо (jado, “to travel”) and Sanskrit यान (yāna, “path”).

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

iānua f (genitive iānuae); first declension

1. any double-doored entrance (e.g. a domestic door or a gate to a temple or city)
2. an entrance, entry, access

   Synonyms: ingressus, ingressiō, līmen, initium, foris, porta, vestibulum

   Antonym: abitus

First-declension noun.

• iānitor
• iānuārius

• Iānus

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “janua”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 5: J L, page 29

• ianua in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
• “ianua”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ianua in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to burst open the door: ianuam effringere, revellere
    
• “ianua”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers