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fanum

Noun

Meaning

fanum (plural fana)

(historical) The site of an Ancient Roman temple or shrine.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Livy I 12; Dionysius of Halicarnassus II 59; Ovid Fasti VI 793; Cicero Catilinaria I 33. There may have been an earlier shrine ( fanum ), since the Jupiter's cult is attested epigraphically. Source: Internet

In ancient Rome only the native deities of Roman mythology had a templum; any equivalent structure for a foreign deity was called a fanum. Source: Internet

The only sanctuary of Isis ( fanum Isidis) identified with certainty in Roman Britain is located in Londinium (present-day London). Source: Internet

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