Nanus, Adiect. Iuuen A dwarfe or very little person.Nanus Festus.A little broade vessell called also Siculus barbatus. Naphtha. Strap. A kinde of mawnde or chanlkie claye some. what liquide, whervnto if fire be put it kindleth in such wise that if a little water be caste thereon, it burneth more vehemently: and may be quenched either with great abundance of water, or else with vineger, alume and byrdelime.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
nānus, i, m., = na/nnos and na=nos (cf. Gell. 19, 13, 2 sq.); in vulg. lang., a dwarf (pure Lat. pumilio): interrogatum a quodam nano, Suet. Tib. 61; Prop. 4 (5), 8, 41; Juv. 8, 32.—B. In fem.: nāna, ae, a female dwarf: nanos et nanas et moriones populo donavit, Lampr. Alex. Sev. 34.—II.Transf.A.A small horse, Helv. Cinn. ap. Gell. 19, 13, 5; cf. id. ib. 4.—B.A low, shallow water-vessel: vas aquarium vocant futim ... quo postea accessit nanus cum Graeco nomine, et cum Latino nomine, Graecā figurā barbatus, Varr. L. L. 5, 119 Müll.; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 176 ib.