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say it: JAY-nuhs
janus is a noun meaning "(Roman mythology) the Roman god of doorways and passages; is depicted with two faces on opposite sides of his head". It is pronounced /ˈdʒeɪnəs/ — JAY-nuhs. It carries one recorded sense.
(Roman mythology) the Roman god of doorways and passages; is depicted with two faces on opposite sides of his head
Roman mythology
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for janus come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.