catenaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Medieval Latin catena, from Latin catēna (“chain”). Doublet of chain.

発音

• IPA: /kəˈtiːnə/

名詞

catena (plural catenas or catenae)

1. A series of related items.
   • 1873, Walter Bagehot, Lombard Street:

     And, on the contrary, there is a whole catena of authorities, beginning with Sir Robert Peel and ending with Mr. Lowe, which say that the Banking Department of the Bank of England is only a Bank like any other bank [...]

2. (soil science) A series of distinct soils arrayed along a slope.
   • 2000, Ewan Anderson, Middle East: Geography and Geopolitics, Routledge, →ISBN, page 55:

     The changes in soil characteristics from the crest to the foot of a slope are together known as a catena.

派生語

• catena compound

関連する語

アナグラム

• acetan

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [kaˈteː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [kaˈtɛː.na]

名詞

catēna f (genitive catēnae); first declension

1. chain

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生語

派生した語

参照

Further reading

• “catena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “catena”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "catena", 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)
• “catena”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to put some one in irons, chains: in vincula, in catenas conicere aliquem
    
• “catena”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “catena”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin