name
Meaning 1
A surname from Italian.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
catena
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Pronunciation
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/kəˈtiːnə/
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CMU ARPABET: K AH0 T IY1 N AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A series of related items.
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noun
Meaning 3
A series of distinct soils arrayed along a slope.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: soil science
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noun
Meaning 4
a chain of connected ideas or passages or objects so arranged that each member is closely related to the preceding and following members (especially a series of patristic comments elucidating Christian dogma)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: chain, concatenation
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian Catena.
From Medieval Latin catena, from Latin catēna (“chain”). Doublet of chain.
Across languages
Translations
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: верига (veriga) — series of related items
- Finnish: ketju — series of related items
- Polish: ciąg — series of related items
- Portuguese: cadeia — series of related items
- Portuguese: série — series of related items
- Indonesian: katena — a series of distinct soils arrayed along a slope
- Polish: łańcuch — a series of distinct soils arrayed along a slope
- Portuguese: catena — a series of distinct soils arrayed along a slope
Real reading context