agina

Latin

Etymology

From agō (“I do, act”).

Noun

agīna f (genitive agīnae); first declension

1. The opening of the upper part of a balance, in which the tongue moves

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	agīna	agīnae
Genitive	agīnae	agīnārum
Dative	agīnae	agīnīs
Accusative	agīnam	agīnās
Ablative	agīnā	agīnīs
Vocative	agīna	agīnae

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Central Italian: aina
  • Old Italian: aina, agina
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: asinha, aginha
    • Galician: axiña
    • Portuguese: aginha (Trasmontano)
  • Old Spanish: aína (dated)

References

• “agina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• agina 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)
• agina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• https://www.rew-online.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/?id_entry=35619