fane

See also:Faneandfané

English

Alternative forms

• faine(obsolete)
• phane(obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/feɪn/

• Audio(US):

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• Rhymes:-eɪn
• Homophones:feign,foehn,fain(archaic)

Etymology 1

FromMiddle Englishfane,fromOld Englishfana(“cloth, banner”),fromProto-West Germanic*fanō,fromProto-Germanic*fanô(“cloth, flag”),fromProto-Indo-European*peh₂n-(“to weave; something woven; cloth, fabric, tissue”).Doubletoffanonandvane.

Noun

fane(pluralfanes)

1. (obsolete)Aweathercock,aweather vane.
   • 1801,John Baillie,An Impartial History of the Town and County of Newcastle Upon Tyne,page541:

     The ſteeple had become old and ruinous; and therefore the preſent one was built about the year 1740. It had, at that time, fourfanesmounted on ſpires, on the four corners; theſe being judged too weak for thefanes,were taken down in 1764, and the roof of the ſteeple altered.

2. (obsolete)Abanner,especially a military banner.
   • c.1935,J.R.R. Tolkien,The Fall of Arthur,Harper Collins, London, published2013,→ISBN,page18:

     So fate fell-woven forward drave him,
     and with malice Mordred his mind hardened,
     saying that war was wisdom and waiting folly.
     ‘Let theirfanesbe felled and their fast places
     bare and broken, burned their havens,
     and isles immune from march of arms
     or Roman reign now reek to heaven
     in fires of vengeance! [I.18-25]

Etymology 2

FromMiddle Englishfane(“temple”),fromLatinfanum(“temple, place dedicated to a deity”).Doubletoffanum.

Noun

fane(pluralfanes)

2. Atempleorsacredplace.
   • 1791,Homer,“[The Iliad.] Book II.”, inW[illiam] Cowper,transl.,The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse,[…],volume I, London:[…]J[oseph]Johnson,[…],→OCLC,page52,lines664–667:

     AndPallasrear'd him; her ovvn unctuousfane/ She made his habitation, vvhere vvith bulls / The youth of Athens, and vvith ſlaughter'd lambs / Her annual vvorſhip celebrate.

   • 1830,Anacreon,“Ode V. On the Rose.”, in T. W. C. Edwards, transl.,Τα του Ανακρεοντος του Τηιου Μελη= The Odes of Anacreon the Teian Bard, Literally Translated into English Prose;[…],London:[…][J. M‘Gowan and Son]for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall,[…],→OCLC,page22:

     Crown me, therefore,—and minstrelling near to thyfanes,Bacchus,thickly-adorned with rosy chaplets will I dance with a full-bosomed maid.

   • 1848November –1850December,William Makepeace Thackeray,chapter 41, inThe History of Pendennis.[…],volume(please specify |volume=I or II),London:Bradbury and Evans,[…],published1849–1850,→OCLC:

     Indeed, the bells were tolling, the people were trooping into the handsome church, the carriages of the inhabitants of the lordly quarter poured forth their pretty loads of devotees, in whose company Pen and his uncle, ending their edifying conversation, entered thefane.

   • 1850,The Madras Journal of Literature and Science,volume16,page64:

     Fanesare built around it for a distance of 3, 4 or 5 Indian miles; but whether these areJaina,or more strictly Hindu is not mentioned.

   • 1884,Henry David Thoreau,Summer: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau,page78:

     The priests of the Germans and Britons were druids. They had their sacred oaken groves. Such were their steeple houses. Nature was to some extent afaneto them.

   • 1886October –1887January,H[enry] Rider Haggard,She: A History of Adventure,London:Longmans, Green, and Co.,published1887,→OCLC:

     It was a wonderful sight to see the full moon looking down on the ruinedfaneof Kør.

   • 1888,H. P. Blavatsky,The Secret Doctrine,Volume 1: Cosmogenesis,Quest Books 1993 page 458:

     And this ideal conception is found beaming like a golden ray upon each idol, however coarse and grotesque, in the crowded galleries of the sombrefanesof India and other Mother lands of cults.

   • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell,chapter V, inThe Mirror and the Lamp,Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:

     He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights,[…]the height and vastness of this noblefane,its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.

   • 1919,Christopher Morley,The Haunted Bookshop‎^[1],New York, N.Y.:Grosset & Dunlap Publishers,→OCLC:

     [The bookshop] seemed like a secretfane,some shrine of curious rites, and the young man's throat was tightened by a stricture which was half agitation and half tobacco.

Related terms

• profane

Anagrams

• NEFA,neaf

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈfæːnə/

Noun

fanec

1. flag(military)
2. (computing)tab

French

Etymology

Fromfaner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/fan/

• Audio:

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Noun

fanef(pluralfanes)

1. (archaic)dryleaf
2. (cooking)theleavesattached tovegetables,but which are themselves not usually consumed, such as those ofcarrot,radishesandcauliflowers
3. (horticulture,agriculture)the leaves of any vegetable which is not itself aleaf vegetable,and which are not usually attached to the edible part, such as those ofpotatoes,tomatoesandbeans

Further reading

• “fane”,inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

Galician

Verb

fane

1. inflection offanar:
   1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
   2. third-personsingularimperative

Middle English

Etymology 1

InheritedfromOld Englishfana.

Alternative forms

• fanu,fone

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈfaːn(ə)/

Noun

fane

1. (rare)Aparticularkind ofwhite-colourediris.

Descendants

• Yola:fane

References

• “fāne,n.(2).”,inMED Online,Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007,retrieved2018-12-31.

Etymology 2

InheritedfromOld Englishfana,fromProto-West Germanic*fanō,fromProto-Germanic*fanô;doubletoffanon.

Alternative forms

• phane,vaane,vane

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈfaːn(ə)/
• (Southern)IPA^(key):/ˈvaːn(ə)/

Noun

fane(pluralfanes)

1. A flag orgonfalon;a piece of fabric or othervisiblestructureused foridentificationon the field.
2. Aflagborne on sea-goingvessels,especially a long triangular one.
3. Aweathervaneorweathercock(used to indicatechangeableness)

Descendants

• English:fane,vane
• Scots:fane,faan,thane,phane

References

• “fāne,n.(1).”,inMED Online,Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007,retrieved2018-12-31.

Etymology 3

BorrowedfromLatinfānum,fromProto-Italic*faznom.

Alternative forms

• phane

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈfaːn(ə)/

Noun

fane

1. (rare)Atemple,especiallythat used to worshipRomangods.

Descendants

• English:fane

References

• “fāne,n.(3).”,inMED Online,Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007,retrieved2018-12-31.

Old English

Noun

fane

1. inflection offanu:
   1. accusative/genitive/dativesingular
   2. nominative/accusativeplural

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):[ˈfa.ne]

Verb

fane(Jawiفاني)

1. (intransitive)tocome up
2. (intransitive)torise
3. (intransitive,of the moon)towax

   ara ifanefutu nyagimoi―the tenth night of thewa xingmoon

Conjugation

Conjugation offane
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	tofane	fofane	mifane
2nd	nofane	nifane
3rd	Masculine	ofane	ifane,yofane†
Feminine	mofane
Neuter	ifane
†- archaic

References

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890)Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate,E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001)A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia,University of Pittsburgh

Yola

Etymology

FromMiddle Englishfane, fone,fromOld Englishfana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/fɔːn/
• Homophone:fong

Noun

fane

1. A white-flowered, water-growing variety ofiris.
   • 1867,“A YOLA ZONG”, inSONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY,number 1, page108:

     Zing ug a morfanea zour a ling.

     [Sing for the mooriris,the sorrel and the ling.]

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland,London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page108