fane
A temple or sacred placeA temple or sacred place.
» The pilgrims entered the ancient fane to offer their prayers.
Die Pilger betraten das alte Heiligtum, um ihre Gebete darzubringen.
Значение
значений: 3A temple or sacred place.
(устаревшее)A weathercock, a weather vane.
(устаревшее)A banner, especially a military banner.
Примеры
предложений: 5The pilgrims entered the ancient fane to offer their prayers.
deDie Pilger betraten das alte Heiligtum, um ihre Gebete darzubringen.
Fresh blows the breeze, and broader grows the bay, / and on the cliffs is seen Minerva's fane.
Armed, in the vacant courts, by Juno's fane, / Phoenix and curst Ulysses watched the prey.
Soon, where Leucate lifts her cloud-capt head, / looms forth Apollo's fane, the seaman's name of dread.
O'erwhelmed with odds, we perish; first of all, / struck down by fierce Peneleus by the fane / of warlike Pallas, doth Coroebus fall.
Происхождение
From Middle English fane, from Old English fana (“cloth, banner”), from Proto-West GermaniFrom Middle English fane, from Old English fana (“cloth, banner”), from Proto-West Germanic *fanō, from Proto-Germanic *fanô (“cloth, flag”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“to weave; something woven; cloth, fabric, tissue”). Doublet of fanon and vane.
From Middle English fane (“temple”), from Latin fānum (“temple, place dedicated to a deity”). Doublet of fanum.
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