Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Fanum

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

FANUM. A place which had been consecrated, by the solemn formula of the augurs (effatum), to some deity (Varro, L. L. vi. 54. Liv. x. 37. Cic. Div. i. 41.); and, as a sacred edifice was generally raised and dedicated upon such places, the same term also signified the edifice or temple, with the consecrated precinct surrounding it.