catena
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Medieval Latin, from Latin catēna (“chain”) (from which also chain).
Noun[edit]
catena (plural catenas or catenae)
- A series of related items.
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1873, Walter Bagehot, Lombard Street:
- And, on the contrary, there is a whole catena of authorities, beginning with Sir Robert Peel and ending with Mr. Lowe, which say that the Banking Department of the Bank of England is only a Bank like any other bank
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Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
catena f (plural catene)
- chain
- bond, fetter; subordination, repression
- tie, cord, bond
- tether (a rope, cable etc. that holds something in place whilst allowing some movement)
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“to link or weave together; chain, net”). Might be related to casa.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
catēna f (genitive catēnae); first declension
catēnā f
Inflection[edit]
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | catēna | catēnae |
| genitive | catēnae | catēnārum |
| dative | catēnae | catēnīs |
| accusative | catēnam | catēnās |
| ablative | catēnā | catēnīs |
| vocative | catēna | catēnae |
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References[edit]
- catena in Charlton T. Lewis & 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 Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to put some one in irons, chains: in vincula, in catenas conicere aliquem
- to put some one in irons, chains: in vincula, in catenas conicere aliquem
- 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
- ^ Pokorny 472
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