gānĕa, ae, f., and gānĕum, i, n. [for gas-nea, kindr. to Sanscr ghas, to eat, qs. locus edendi],
I an eating-house , cook-shop , ordinary; also in bad repute as the abode of prostitutes.
α Form ganea: paulisper stetimus in illo ganearum tuarum nidore atque fumo, Cic. Pis. 6, 13: libido stupri, ganeae ceterique cultus non minor incesserat, Sall. C. 13, 3: in ganea lustrisque senectutem acturum, Liv. 26, 2, 15; Plin. 8, 51, 77, § 209; Plin. Pan. 49, 6: ventris et ganeae paratus, Tac. A. 3, 52: sumptu ganeaque satiare inexplebiles Vitellii libidines, by prodigal feasts , id. H. 2, 95; Suet. Calig. 11; Gell. 9, 2, 6 al.—
β Form ganeum (ante-class.): immersit aliquo sese, credo, in ganeum, Plaut. Men. 5, 1, 3; id. As. 5, 2, 37; Ter. Ad. 359; Varr. ap. Non. 208, 15; Prud. Psych. 343.