different between hearing vs lagena

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h??.??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h???.??/, /?h???.??/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /?hi??.??/
• Rhymes: -??r??

Adjective

hearing (comparative more hearing, superlative most hearing)

1. Able to hear.

   Deaf people often must deal with hearing people.

Antonyms

• deaf
• nonhearing

Translations

Noun

hearing (countable and uncountable, plural hearings)

1. (uncountable) The sense used to perceive sound.
2. (countable) The act by which something is heard.
3. (uncountable) A proceeding at which discussions are heard.

4. (countable, law) A legal procedure done before a judge, without a jury, as with an evidentiary hearing.
5. (informal, dated) A scolding.

Derived terms

• hard of hearing
• hearing aid
• hearing-impaired
• in hearing
• preliminary hearing

Translations

Verb

hearing

1. present participle of hear

English

Etymology

From Latin

Noun

lagena (plural lagenas or lagenae or lagenæ)

1. (anatomy) The upper part of the cochlear duct.
2. (anatomy) A similar structure, shaped like a flask, that is a hearing organ in some vertebrates.
3. (historical) A wine-vase; an amphora.

Derived terms

• lagenar

Anagrams

• Angela, Galena, alnage, anlage, galena

Latin

Alternative forms

• lag?na, lagaena, lagoena, laguna

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ??????? (lág?nos, “flask, pitcher”).

Noun

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

1. large earthenware vessel
2. flask, flagon

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• lagula
• lagella
• laguncula

Descendants

• Arabic: ????????? (laj?na) (super-rare)
• English: lagena
• Portuguese: laje, lájea, lajem, laja, lagena
• Swedish: lägel

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) , “lagena”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E.?J. Brill, page 518
• lagena in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lagena in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• lagena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette