different between catena vs catenae

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin catena, from Latin cat?na (“chain”). Doublet of chain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??ti?n?/

Noun

catena (plural catenas or catenae)

1. A series of related items.
2. (soil science) A series of distinct soils arrayed along a slope.

Related terms

• chain
• catenal
• catenary
• catenative
• concatenate
• concatenation

Translations

Anagrams

• acetan

Interlingua

Noun

catena (plural catenas)

1. chain

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cat?na.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?te.na/

Noun

catena f (plural catene)

1. chain
2. bond, fetter; subordination, repression
3. tie, cord, bond
4. tether (a rope, cable etc. that holds something in place whilst allowing some movement)

Synonyms

• ordito

Related terms

• catena alimentare
• catenaccio
• catena da neve
• catenaria
• catenella
• incatenare

Anagrams

• ancate
• cenata

Further reading

• catena in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *katesn?, further etymology unknown. Probably connected with cassis (“hunting-net”).

Pokorny derives cat?na and cassis from Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“to link or weave together; chain, net”), with casa as another possible cognate.

Martirosyan connects cassis and cat?na with Old Armenian ???? (c?anc?, “casting-net”) and derives all from a Mediterranean substrate.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ka?te?.na/, [kä?t?e?nä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka?te.na/, [k??t???n?]

Noun

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

1. chain

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• catella
• cat?n?rius
• cat?n?tus
• cat?n?
• cat?n?sus
• cat?nula

Descendants

References

Further reading

• catena in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• catena in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• catena in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• catena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
• catena in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• catena in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cat?na (“chain”). Doublet of cadeia.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka?t?.n?/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /k??te.n?/
• Hyphenation: ca?te?na

Noun

catena f (plural catenas)

1. (geology) catena (series of distinct soils along a slope)

English

Noun

catenae

1. plural of catena

Latin

Noun

cat?nae f

1. genitive singular of cat?na
2. dative singular of cat?na
3. nominative plural of cat?na
4. vocative plural of cat?na