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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ar?na (“sand, arena”), from an earlier *has?na (compare Sabine fas?na), possibly from Etruscan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???i?n?/
• Rhymes: -i?n?

Noun

arena (plural arenas or arenae or arenæ)

1. An enclosed area, often outdoor, for the presentation of sporting events (sports arena) or other spectacular events; earthen area, often oval, specifically for rodeos (North America) or circular area for bullfights (especially Hispanic America).

2. The building housing such an area; specifically, a very large, often round building, often topped with a dome, designated for indoor sporting or other major events, such as concerts.

3. (historical) The sand-covered centre of an amphitheatre where contests were held in Ancient Rome.

4. A realm in which events take place; an area of interest, study, behaviour, etc.

Translations

Anagrams

• Aaren, Arean, Arnea, anear

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin ar?na.

Noun

arena f (plural arenas)

1. sand

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) , “arena”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, ?ISBN

Asturian

Alternative forms

• areña

Etymology

From Latin ar?na.

Noun

arena f (plural arenes)

1. sand

Derived terms

• reló d'arena

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin ar?na.

Noun

arena f (plural arenes)

1. sand

   Synonym: sorra

2. arena (an enclosed area for the presentation of sporting events)
3. arena (a realm in which important events unfold)

Further reading

• “arena” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “arena” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “arena” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “arena” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

From Latin ar?na. Doublet of area.

Noun

arena f (plural arenas)

1. arena (an enclosed area for the presentation of sporting events)

Further reading

• “arena” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Italian

Alternative forms

• rena

Etymology

From Latin ar?na, possibly from Etruscan. See also rena.

Pronunciation

• (esp. in sense 1 and 2) IPA^(key): /a?re.na/
  • Hyphenation: a?ré?na
• (esp. in sense 3 and 4) IPA^(key): /a?r?.na/
  • Hyphenation: a?rè?na

Noun

arena f (plural arene)

1. sand

   Synonyms: sabbia, rena

2. beach or lido
3. space in a classical amphitheatre; arena
4. bullring and similar sporting spaces
5. cockpit (An enclosure for cockfights)

Related terms

• arenoso

References

Latin

Alternative forms

• har?na

Etymology

From an earlier *has?na (compare Sabine fas?na), possibly from Etruscan.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a?re?.na/, [ä??e?nä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a?re.na/, [?????n?]

Noun

ar?na f (genitive ar?nae); first declension

1. Alternative form of har?na

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: arinã
  • Romanian: arin?
• Italian: arena
• Neapolitan: arena
• Old French: areine
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: arena
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: arena
  • Occitan: arena
• Old Portuguese: ar?a
  • Galician: area
  • Portuguese: areia
    • Guinea-Bissau Creole: reia
    • Kabuverdianu: areia
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: arena
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: rene
• Sardinian: arena, rena
• Sicilian: arena, rina
• Venetian: rena

Borrowings

Noun

ar?na f

1. vocative singular of ar?na

Noun

ar?n? f

1. ablative singular of ar?na

References

• arena in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• arena in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• arena in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• arena in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin ar?na.

Noun

arena f

1. sand

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

Etymology

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Noun

arena

1. arena

Inflection

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Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin arena, harena.

Noun

arena m (definite singular arenaen, indefinite plural arenaer, definite plural arenaene)

1. an arena
2. a venue

References

• “arena” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin arena, harena

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??re?n?/

Noun

arena m (definite singular arenaen, indefinite plural arenaer or arenaar, definite plural arenaene or arenaane)

1. an arena
2. a venue

References

• “arena” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin ar?na, from an earlier *has?na, possibly from Etruscan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?r?.na/

Noun

arena f

1. arena (enclosed area, often outdoor)
2. (historical) arena (sand-covered centre of an amphitheatre)
3. arena (realm in which important events unfold)

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) arenowy

Further reading

• arena in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• arena in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ar?na (“sand”), possibly from Etruscan *???????????????????????? (*hasena). See also the inherited doublet areia.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?.??e.n?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.??e.na/

Noun

arena f (plural arenas)

1. arena

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin arena.

Noun

arena f

1. sand

Scots

Verb

arena

1. aren't

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ar??na/
• Hyphenation: a?re?na

Noun

aréna f (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. arena

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin ar?na, possibly of Etruscan origin. Compare English arena.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a??ena/, [a??e.na]
• Rhymes: -ena

Noun

arena f (plural arenas)

1. (geology) sand, gravel

2. (building, sports) bullfight arena; boxing ring

Derived terms

Related terms

• arenoso

Further reading

• “arena” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Noun

arena c

1. arena

Declension

Anagrams

• arean

English

Etymology

From Middle English swingen, from Old English swingan, from Proto-Germanic *swingan? (compare Low German swingen, German schwingen, Dutch zwingen, Swedish svinga), from Proto-Indo-European *sweng- (compare Scottish Gaelic seang (“thin”)). Related to swink.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sw??/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

swing (third-person singular simple present swings, present participle swinging, simple past swung or (archaic or dialectal) swang, past participle swung or (archaic) swungen)

1. (intransitive) To rotate about an off-centre fixed point.

   The plant swung in the breeze.

   • 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 12

     With one accord the tribe swung rapidly toward the frightened cries, and there found Terkoz holding an old female by the hair and beating her unmercifully with his great hands.
2. (intransitive) To dance.
3. (intransitive) To ride on a swing.

   The children laughed as they swung.

4. (intransitive) To participate in the swinging lifestyle; to participate in wife-swapping.
5. (intransitive) To hang from the gallows.
6. (intransitive, cricket, of a ball) to move sideways in its trajectory.
7. (intransitive) To fluctuate or change.

   It wasn't long before the crowd's mood swung towards restless irritability.

8. (transitive) To move (an object) backward and forward; to wave.

   He swung his sword as hard as he could.

9. (transitive) To change (a numerical result); especially to change the outcome of an election.
10. (transitive) To make (something) work; especially to afford (something) financially.

    If it’s not too expensive, I think we can swing it.

11. (transitive, music) To play notes that are in pairs by making the first of the pair slightly longer than written (augmentation) and the second shorter, resulting in a bouncy, uneven rhythm.
12. (transitive, cricket) (of a bowler) to make the ball move sideways in its trajectory.
13. (transitive and intransitive, boxing) To move one's arm in a punching motion.
14. (transitive) In dancing, to turn around in a small circle with one's partner, holding hands or arms.

    "to swing one's partner", or simply "to swing"

15. (transitive, engineering) To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.

    The lathe can swing a pulley of 12 inches diameter.

16. (transitive, carpentry) To put (a door, gate, etc.) on hinges so that it can swing or turn.
17. (nautical) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor.

    A ship swings with the tide.

Troponyms

• (to rotate about an off-centre fixed point): pivot, swivel

Derived terms

• come out swinging
• overswing
• swing into action
• swingle

Translations

Noun

swing (countable and uncountable, plural swings)

1. The manner in which something is swung.
2. The sweep or compass of a swinging body.
3. A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing.
5. A hanging seat in a children's playground, for acrobats in a circus, or on a porch for relaxing.
6. A dance style.
7. (music) The genre of music associated with this dance style.
8. The amount of change towards or away from something.
   • 1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford

     Miss Pole came round with a swing to as vehement a belief in the sorrowful tale as she had been sceptical before […]

   1. (politics) In an election, the increase or decrease in the number of votes for opposition parties compared with votes for the incumbent party.

      The polls showed a wide swing to Labour.

9. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball as it flies through the air.
10. Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.
11. In a musical theater production, a performer who understudies several roles.
12. A basic dance step in which a pair link hands and turn round together in a circle.
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14. (obsolete) Free course; unrestrained liberty.

    • Take thy swing.

    • 1788, Edmund Burke, speech in the Impeachment of Warren Hastings

      To prevent anything which may prove an obstacle on the full swing of his genius.

15. Influence or power of anything put in motion.
16. (boxing) A type of hook with the arm more extended.

Quotations

• 1937 June 11, Judy Garland, “All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm”, A day at the races, Sam Wood (director), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

  All God’s chillun got rhythm. All God's chillun got swing.

  Maybe haven't got money, maybe haven't got shoes.

  All God’s chillun got rhythm for to push away their blues.

Derived terms

• sex swing
• swing and a miss
• swing of things
• swings and roundabouts
• what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts

Translations

Anagrams

• Gwins, wings

Czech

Noun

swing m

1. swing (dance)

Further reading

• swing in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• swing in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English swing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /swi?/

Noun

swing m (plural swings)

1. swing; several senses

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English swing.

Noun

swing m (invariable)

1. swing (music and dance style; golf swing)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English swing.

Noun

swing m (plural swings)

1. swing (a dance and music style)
2. swinging (exchange of partners for sex)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English swing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?swin/, [?sw?n]

Noun

swing m (plural swings)

1. swing (dance)