English

Noun

catena ‎(plural catenas or catenae)

1. A series of related items.
   • 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

Related terms

• chain
• catenary
• catenative
• concatenate
• concatenation

Italian

Etymology

From Latin catēna.

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

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kat- ‎(“to link or weave together; chain, net”). Might be related to casa.^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kaˈteː.na/

Noun

catēna f ‎(genitive catēnae); first declension

1. chain
2. vocative singular of catēna

catēnā f

1. ablative singular of catēna

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

• catēnō

Descendants

References

• 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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “catena”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • 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

1. ↑ Pokorny 472