Inherited fromLatinlūna.
lena f (plurallenes)(ORB, broad)
- moon
- lune in DicoFranPro:Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – ondicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
- lena in Lo trèsor Arpitan – onarpitan.eu
Further information
[edit]FromProto-Polynesian*renga, fromProto-Oceanic*renga. Cognate withTahitianreʻa,Samoanlega,Tonganenga andMaorirengarenga(“Arthropodium cirratum”).[1]
lena
- turmeric
- ^“Renga”, inTe Māra Reo, Benson Family Trust,2022
- Tyron, Darell (1994) “Oceanic plant names”, in A.K. Pawley and M.D. Ross, editors,Austronesian Terminologies: Continuity and Change, Canberra, Australia: Australian National University,→ISBN, pages492-3
Fusion ofle(“with”) with various meanings ofa. The-n- is analogical to prepositions likei.
lena (triggerseclipsis,in regular past tenseslenar)
- withwhich,withwhom(indirect relative; not used in the past tense except with some irregular verbs)
- an t-ordlena bhfuil sé ag briseadh an chathaoir ―the sledgehammer with which he is breaking the chair
- an bheanlena dúirt sé é ―the woman to whom he told it (literally, “the woman with whom he said it”)
"With which" may also be expressed with the indirect relative particle before the verb and the appropriate inflected form ofle in its original position in the clause:
- an t-orda bhfuil sé ag briseadh an chathaoirleis ―the sledgehammer that he is breaking the chair with [it]
- an bheana dúirt séléi é ―the woman that he told it to [her]
lena
- Contraction ofle(“with”) +a(various meanings).
- ‘with his’ (triggerslenition):lena dheartháir ―with his brother
- ‘with her’ (triggersh-prothesis):lena hathair ―with her father
- ‘with their’ (triggerseclipsis):lena ndeartháir ―with their brother
Irish preposition contractions
| Basic form | Contracted with | Copular forms |
|---|
| an(“the sg”) | na(“the pl”) | mo(“my”) | do(“your”) | a(“his, her, their; which (present)”) | ár(“our”) | ar(“which (past)”) | (before consonant) | (present/future before vowel) | (past/conditional before vowel) |
|---|
| de(“from”) | den | dena
desna* | demo
dem* | dedo
ded*,det* | dá | dár | dar | darb | darbh |
| do(“to, for”) | don | dona
dosna* | domo
dom* | dodo
dod*,dot* | dá | dár | dar | darb | darbh |
| faoi(“under, about”) | faoin | faoina | faoimo | faoido | faoina | faoinár | faoinar | faoinarb | faoinarbh |
| i(“in”) | sa,san | sna | imo
im* | ido
id*,it* | ina | inár | inar | inarb | inarbh |
| le(“with”) | leisan | leisna | lemo
lem* | ledo
led*,let* | lena | lenár | lenar | lenarb | lenarbh |
| ó(“from, since”) | ón | óna
ósna* | ómo
óm* | ódo
ód*,ót* | óna | ónár | ónar | ónarb | ónarbh |
| trí(“through”) | trídan | trína | trímo | trído | trína | trínár | trínar | trínarb | trínarbh |
| *Dialectal. |
Fromalenare.
lena f (plurallene)
- (literary)breath
- Synonym:respiro
1300s–1310s,Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, inInferno [Hell][2], lines22–24; republished asGiorgio Petrocchi, editor,La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][3], 2nd revised edition, Florence:publ.Le Lettere,1994:E come quei che conlena affannata, ¶ uscito fuor delpelago a la riva, ¶ si volge a l’acquaperigliosa eguata,[…]- And even as he, who, with distressfulbreath, ¶ Forth issued from the sea upon the shore, ¶ Turns to the water perilous and gazes; […]
- (figurative)force,energy,vigour
- Synonyms:forza,vigore
- léna in Treccani.it –Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Feminization oflēnō(“pimp”).
lēna f (genitivelēnae);first declension
- (slang) aprocuress,bawd,madame,seductress,enticer
First-declension noun.
- “lena”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lena”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "lena", 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)
- lena inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
lena
- wet;moist
- Antonym:maina
lena
- inflection oflen:
- femininenominative/vocativesingular
- indefinitemasculine/neutergenitivesingular
- indefiniteanimatemasculineaccusativesingular
- neuternominative/accusative/vocativeplural
lena
- inflection oflen:
- definitesingular
- plural
lena
- (slang)tramadol
- Synonym:tram
