senia

Ese

Noun

senia

1. chain

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ni.a/, [ˈs̠ɛniä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈse.ni.a/, [ˈsɛːniä]

Noun

senia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of senium

References

• senia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “senia”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “senia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “senia”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Sicilian

Etymology

From Arabic سَانِيَة (sāniya). First attested in the 1371–81.

Noun

senia f (plural senii)

1. noria (bucketed water wheel to raise water)

Further reading

• Traina, Antonino (1868) “sènia”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 3800