Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Kuvat
2
| Kieli | Käännökset |
|---|---|
| bulgaria | Янус (Janus) |
| espanja | Jano |
| esperanto | Jano |
| hollanti | Janus |
| italia | Giano |
| japani | ヤヌス (Yanusu / yanusu) |
| kreikka | Ιανός (Ianos / Ianós) |
| latina | Iānus, Jānus, Janus |
| norja | Janus |
| portugali | Jano |
| ranska | Janus |
| ruotsi | Janus |
| saksa | Janus |
| suomi | Janus |
| tanska | Janus |
| venäjä | Янус (Janus) |
| viro | Janus |
Määritelmät
Erisnimi
- (Roman mythology) The god of doorways, gates and transitions, and of beginnings and endings, having two faces looking in opposite directions.
- (attributively) Used to indicate things with two faces (such as animals with diprosopus) or aspects; or made of two different materials; or having a two-way action.
- (chemistry, attributively) Used to indicate an azo dye with a quaternary ammonium group, frequently with the diazo component being safranine.
- (figuratively) A two-faced person, a hypocrite.
- A moon of Saturn.
Esimerkit
- But the brazen temple of Janus was left standing in the forum; of a size sufficient only to contain the statue of the god, five cubits height, of a human form, but with two faces, directed to the east and west.
- "I'll tell you what we can do," cried her persevering patroness; "we can go as masks, and Lady Juliana shall know nothing about it. That will save the scandal of an open revolt or a tiresome dispute. Half the company will be masked; so, if you keep your own secret, nobody will find it out. Come, what characters shall we choose?"
- "That of Janus, I think, would be the most suitable for me," said Mary.
- Thinking that the ferocity of his subjects might be mitigated by the disuse of arms, he built the temple of Janus at the foot of the Aventine as an index of peace and war, to signify when it was open that the State was under arms, and when it was shut that all the surrounding nations were at peace.
- Janus, with his two heads, his mystery, his depiction as both laughing and serious, and the obvious parallel this forms with the masks of attic tragedy and comedy would make him a double of the two-headed man, the conjurer, and an associate of the trickster in folk comedy as well.
(Roman mythology) The god of doorways, gates and transitions, and of beginnings and endings, having two faces looking in opposite directions.
A statue of the Roman god Janus in the collection of the Museum of Ferrara Cathedral in Ferrara, Italy. Janus is traditionally depicted as having two faces, one looking to the past and the other the future.
