Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗The god of doorways, gates and transitions, and of beginnings and endings, having two faces looking in opposite directions. · 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. · Used to indicate an azo dye with a quaternary ammonium group, frequently with the diazo component being safranine. · A two-faced person, a hypocrite.
From Latin Iānus (“the Roman god Janus”).
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- Derivation mentionIānusla
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