English

Proper noun

Siena

1. A province of Tuscany, Italy.
2. The capital city of Siena.

Derived terms

• Sienese
• sienna

Translations

Anagrams

• anise, IESNA

Catalan

Proper noun

Siena f

1. Siena

Italian

Etymology

From Latin Sēna.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Siena f

1. Siena (province)
2. Siena (town)

Derived terms

• senese

Anagrams

• ansie
• asine
• esani

Latvian

Noun

siena m

1. genitive singular form of siens

Etymology 2

Mājas siena (1)

Pilsētas siena (2)

Alas sienas (4)

Cognate with Lithuanian síena ‎(“wall, border”). Derived from verb siet ‎(“to tie, bind”) in its older meaning “to braid, to weave” (see etymology of siet), which suggests that the original meaning of siena was “wicker-work”; compare cognates Avestan [script needed] ‎(hinu, “ties, bonds, hobble, chain”), Old Irish sin ‎(“chain, necktie”). The current meaning suggests that house walls were originally woven with branches and twings, and then probably covered with mud (compare with German Wand ‎(“wall”), winden ‎(“wind, twist, weave”)); some evidence from old folk songs supports this idea.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [siêna]

Noun

siena f (4th declension)

1. wall (structure (made of wood, masonry, etc.) that limits a building, a room, etc.)

   mājas, istabas, šķūna sienas‎ ― house, room, barn walls

   mūra, koka, baļķu siena‎ ― masonry, wooden, log wall

   krāsota, balsināta, tapsēta siena‎ ― painted, plastered, papered wall

   krāsot sienu‎ ― to pain the wall

   līmēt tapetes uz sienas‎ ― to paper (lit. paste paper on) the wall

   sienas pulkstenis, lampa‎ ― wall clock, lamp

   iesist naglu sienā‎ ― to drive a nail into the wall

   pakārt gleznu pie sienas‎ ― to hang a painting on the wall

2. wall, rampart (a high enclosure, especially for protection)

   Kremļa sienas‎ ― Kremlin walls

   cietokšņa sienas‎ ― fortress walls

   pilsētas sienas‎ ― city walls

3. something that encloses, also metaphorically

   dūmu, liesmu, uguns, miglas siena‎ ― a smoke, flame, fire, fog wall

   naida siena‎ ― hatred wall

4. external side of a container, box, cavity, body organ, etc.

   skapja sienas‎ ― cabinet walls

   alas, bedres sienas‎ ― cave, pit walls

   tvaika katla sienas‎ ― boiler walls

   kuņģa siena‎ ― stomach wall

   artērijas siena‎ ― artery wall

Declension

References

1. ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “siena”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN 9984-700-12-7

Lithuanian

Etymology

• Compare Latvian siena.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈs̪ʲɪ́ən̪ɐ]

Noun

síena f ‎(plural síenos) stress pattern 1 ^[1]

1. wall^[2]
2. border, boundary

Declension

Synonyms

• (wall): mūras
• (border): riba, ežia

Derived terms

• (Noun) užsienis m

References

1. ↑ “siena” in Juozas Balčikonis [et al.] (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
2. ↑ “siena” in Victoria Martsinkyavitshute (2012), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian, Seventh printing. New York: Hippocrene Books. ISBN 978-0-7818-0151-5

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

siena f

1. Obsolete spelling of sjena