harena

== Latin == === Alternative forms === arēna === Etymology === From an earlier *hasēna (compare Sabine fasēna), possibly from Etruscan. Compare Etruscan 𐌚𐌀𐌑𐌄𐌍𐌀 (faśena, “sand, ashes, human remains”).Otherwise, as De Vaan suggests, it might be from a verb suffixed with *-es-no-, but none fits and so the etymology is unknown. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [haˈreː.na] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈrɛː.na] === Noun === harēna f (genitive harēnae); first declension sand (poetically) slime, mud, līmus 29, Virgil, Georgica, book IV, ed. by John E. Sheridan, London: Machen, published 1856, page 71, lines 287–294, notes from page 218: (metonymic) sand, sands, a sandy place, especially— a sandy desert, waste the shore of the sea, the beach, coast, strand the place of combat (strewn with sand) in the amphitheatre, the arena (transferred) a combat in the amphitheatre; the combatants in the arena volcanic fire, lava. (figuratively) the place of combat, scene or theatre of any contest (war, a single battle, a dispute, etc.) ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Synonyms ==== sabulum, glārea, saburra ==== Derived terms ==== === References === “harena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “harena”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "harena", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “harena”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “harena”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 279