ganea

gānĕa, ae, f., and gānĕum, i, n. [for gas-nea, kindr. to Sanscr ghas, to eat, qs. locus edendi],

• an eating-house, cook-shop, ordinary; also in bad repute as the abode of prostitutes.
• • • • • α Form ganea: paulisper stetimus in illo ganearum tuarum nidore atque fumo, Cic. Pis. 6, 13: libido stupri, ganeae ceterique cultus non minor incesserat, Sall. C. 13, 3: in ganea lustrisque senectutem acturum, Liv. 26, 2, 15; Plin. 8, 51, 77, § 209; Plin. Pan. 49, 6: ventris et ganeae paratus, Tac. A. 3, 52: sumptu ganeaque satiare inexplebiles Vitellii libidines, by prodigal feasts, id. H. 2, 95; Suet. Calig. 11; Gell. 9, 2, 6 al.—
        • β Form ganeum (ante-class.): immersit aliquo sese, credo, in ganeum, Plaut. Men. 5, 1, 3 (703); id. As. 5, 2, 37 (887); Ter. Ad. 359; Varr. ap. Non. 208, 15; Prud. Psych. 343.

gānea, ae, f. u. gāneum, ī, n. (verwandt mit γάνος, Erquickung, γάνυμαι, sich ergötzen), das Erfrischungshaus, die Garküche, die Kneipe, als Sitz der Schlemmerei v. Liederlichkeit verrufen, dah. auch meton. = Feinschmeckerei, Schlemmerei, α) Form -ea, Cic. Pis. 13. Sall. Cat. 13, 3. Liv. 26, 2, 15. Plin. pan. 49, 6. Tac. ann. 3, 52. Apul. apol. 57. – β) archaist. Form -eum, Naev. com. 117. Plaut. asin. 887 u. Men. 703. Ter. adelph. 359. Varro sat. Men. 481.

1 ganea, ~eum [CL] 1 eating-house. b feasting. c theatre. ~ea, taberna GlC G 5; hec ~ea, i. taberna, quia ibi multa inutilia ganniunt Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 256; Ib. 263 (v. ganearia).  b hec [sc. Circe] socios Ithaci ganea dum solvit edaci / in porcos mutat, sed Ulixes fluxa refutat R. Cant. Malch. IV 343; [monachi] habitu fallebant ac professionis vocabulo, dediti ~ee ‥ fedisque prevaricationibus Ord. Vit. IV 6 p. 208.  c hoc ~eum, i. theatrum, locus sc. in terra defossus ubi ad ludendum et scortandum confluebant . ‥ ~eum, theatrum prostibulum Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 256, 263. 2 harlot. repertum ‥ cum adultera simul et filia illius principem a moechali toro ‥ adduxit; at ~ea sanguineos intorquens oculos “tu” inquit ‥ Osb. V. Dunst. 27 (cf. B. V. Dunst. 21: extraxit [regem] de moechali genearum occubitu); s955 Eduuius ‥ pontificis animos irritavit ut et ipsum a Christianitate suspenderet et ~ee pelicatum ‥ succisura poplitis interrumperet W. Malm. GP I 17; sequebantur curiam effeminatorum manus et ~earum greges Id. GR IV 314; quidam cujus omnium ~earum [MSS: genearum] causa fuit et histrionum G. Herw. 323b; ~earum gregibus non immiscearis Devizes 39v; a common woman, alicaria, ‥ ~ea, meretrix CathA.

2 ganea [dub.] , sort of arrow. Cf. genderata. quispiam de castello ‥ telo gracili, quod ~ea dicitur, eum ‥ cominus positum petiit, que testam capitis ipsius ‥ nudati perforavit Gerv. Cant. Chr. 128 (cf. Mandeville 221).

gānĕa, (13) æ, f. (γάνος), taverne, bouge, mauvais lieu : Cic. Pis. 13 ; Sall. C. 13, 3 ; Liv. 26, 2, 15 ; Tac. Ann. 3, 52 || orgies : Tac. H. 2, 95.

ganea , ae. f.
酒館。娼窝。

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gānea ae, f

• an eating-house, cook-shop, ordinary (of bad repute): ganearum nidor.—Dissipation: ganeis confectus: libido ganeae, S., L., Ta.

GANEA

GA´NEA[CAUPONAp. 388 b. ]

Ganea

A low eating-house, generally used at Rome for immoral purposes. See caupona.