(adjective) : ănus, ūs (also uis, Enn. ap. Non. p. 474, 30, or Trag. v. 232 Vahl.; Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 46; Varr. ap. Non. p. 494, 24; cf. Gell. 4, 16; Prisc. p. 718 P.; v. domus, fructus, victus), f. cf. old Germ. Ano, Ana, = great-grandfather, great-grandmother; Germ. Ahn, ancestor
* An old woman (married or unmarried), a matron, old wife, old maid (sometimes in an honorable sense, but com. as a term of contempt).
* Lit.: tremulis anus attulit artubus lumen, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 20, 40 (Ann. v. 36 Vahl.); Plaut. Rud. 2, 3, 75: quid nuntias super anu?id. Cist. 4, 1, 8: ejus anuis causā,Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 46: prudens,Hor. Epod. 17, 47: pia,Ov. M. 8, 631: huic anui non satis,Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 16; Vulg. Gen. 18, 13; ib. 1 Tim. 5, 2: quae est anus tam delira, quae ista timeat?Cic. Tusc. 1, 21, 48 et saep.—Sometimes for a female soothsayer, sibyl, Hor. S. 1, 9, 30; Ov. F. 4, 158.
* Transf. as , old, aged (cf. senex, old; old man, sometimes old woman): anus matronae,Suet. Ner. 11: libertinam quamvis anum,id. Oth. 2.—Also of animals, or inanimate things of the feminine gender: cerva anus,Ov. A. A. 1, 766: charta,Cat. 68, 46: testa,Mart. 1, 106: terra,Plin. 17, 3, 5, § 35: fici,id. 15, 19, 21, § 82 al.

ānus (noun M) : for as-nus; cf. Sanscr. ās, = to sit, seat one's self; ἧμαι (Dor. ἧσμαι) κάθ-ημαι, Varr.; others refer it to 2. anus, from its form
* The posteriors, fundament.
* Lit., * Cic. Fam. 9, 22; Cels. 7, 30; Scrib. Comp. 227.
* Meton., disease of the anus, piles, hemorrhoids (eccl. Lat.): quinque anos aureos facietis, i. e. representations of,Vulg. 1 Reg. 6, 5 bis; 6, 11; 6, 17.

ānus (noun M) : related to 2. an- = ἀμφί; prim. signif. a rounding, a circular form; hence also 1. anulus; cf. Varr. L. L. 6, 8, p. 76 Müll.
* An iron ring for the feet, Plaut. Men. 1, 1, 9.

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