DictionaryRoot: vannus
Latin

vannus

winnowing basket or shovel

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A running tabletop electric fan, shown in three-quarter view with recognizable rotating blades behind its safety grille and two short ribbons streaming outward from the grille to make the moving air visible.
noun / verb

fan

FAN/fæn/

A device that moves air, or to move air with one.

Etymology

A vannus tossed grain into the air so lighter chaff could blow away. The name later came to mean a device for moving air, the function performed by a modern fan’s rotating blades.

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