FromLatinlagēna(“flagon; large flask”), fromAncient Greekλάγηνος(lágēnos,“flask, pitcher”).Alternative form ofλᾰ́γῡνος(lắgūnos).
lagena (plurallagenasorlagenaeorlagenæ)
- (anatomy) The upper part of thecochlearduct.
- (anatomy) A similar structure, shaped like aflask, that is ahearingorgan in somevertebrates.
- (historical) Awine-vase; anamphora.
lagēna f (genitivelagēnae);first declension
- Alternative form oflagoena
First-declension noun.
- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “lagena”, inSupplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill,page518
- “lagena”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "lagena", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- lagena inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.