harena

== Latin == === Alternative forms === arēna === Etymology === From Old Latin hasēna, possibly from Etruscan; compare Sabine fasēna, 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 Synonyms: sabulō, sabulum, saburra Near-synonym: glārea (poetic) slime; mud Synonym: 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) the sand; sands; a sandy place: sandy desert or wastes beach; strand; coastland (at the seashore) the place of combat in the amphitheatre (strewn with sand): the arena (transferred sense): combat in the amphitheatre the combatants in the arena (figurative) the arena (the realm in which a dispute unfolds) ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== 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