arena

See also: aréna, areña, and Arena

English

A modern arena.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin arēna (“sand, arena”), from an earlier *hasēna (compare Sabine fasēna), possibly from Etruscan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɹiːnə/
• Rhymes: -iːnə

Noun

arena (plural arenas or arenae or arenæ)

1. An enclosed area, often outdoor, for the presentation of sporting events (sports arena) or other spectacular events; earthen area, often oval, specifically for rodeos (North America) or circular area for bullfights (especially Hispanic America).

   A large crowd filled the seats of the arena.

2. The building housing such an area; specifically, a very large, often round building, often topped with a dome, designated for indoor sporting or other major events, such as concerts.

   The arena is grey with white beams.

3. (historical) The sand-covered centre of an amphitheatre where contests were held in Ancient Rome.

   The gladiators entered the arena.

4. A realm in which important events unfold.

   The company was a player in the maritime insurance arena.

Translations

an enclosed area, often outdoor

• Albanian: arenë (sq) f
• Arabic: صَالَة‎ f (ṣāla)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: арэ́на f (aréna)
• Bulgarian: аре́на (bg) f (aréna)
• Catalan: arena (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 舞臺 (zh), 舞台 (zh) (wǔtái) (also traditional Chinese variant), 阿雷納, 阿雷纳 (āléinà), 競技場 (zh), 竞技场 (zh) (jìngjìchǎng)

• Czech: aréna f
• Danish: arena c
• Finnish: areena (fi), kenttä (fi)
• French: arène (fr) f
• Galician: arena (gl) f
• German: Arena (de) f
• Greek: αρένα (el) f (aréna)
• Hungarian: aréna (hu)
• Ido: areno (io)
• Interlingue: arena
• Irish: airéine f
• Italian: arena (it) f

• Japanese: アリーナ (arīna), 闘技場 (とうぎじょう, tōgijō), 土俵 (ja) (どひょう, dohyō) (esp. sumo)
• Korean: 아레나 (arena), 투기장 (tugijang), 경기장 (ko) (gyeonggijang)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: harēna f, arēna f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: arena m

  Nynorsk: arena m

• Persian: آرنا‎ (ârenâ), سالن‎ (fa) (sâlon)
• Polish: arena (pl) f
• Portuguese: arena (pt) f
• Romanian: arenă (ro) f
• Russian: аре́на (ru) f (aréna)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: аре́на f

  Roman: aréna (sh) f

• Spanish: arena (es) f, estadio (es) m
• Swedish: arena (sv) c
• Thai: เวที (th) (wee-tii), สนาม (th) (sà-nǎam)
• Ukrainian: аре́на (uk) f (aréna)
• Vietnamese: sân khấu (vi), vũ đài (vi)

the building housing such an area

• Finnish: areena (fi)
• German: Arena (de) f
• Hungarian: aréna (hu)
• Indonesian: gelanggang (id)
• Irish: airéine f

• Portuguese: arena (pt) f
• Romanian: arenă (ro) f
• Russian: аре́на (ru) f (aréna)
• Spanish: arena (es) f

the sand-covered centre of an amphitheatre

• Albanian: arenë (sq) f
• Finnish: areena (fi)
• French: arène (fr) f
• German: Arena (de) f
• Hungarian: aréna (hu)
• Italian: arena (it) f

• Persian: آرنا‎ (ârenâ)
• Polish: arena (pl) f
• Portuguese: arena (pt) f
• Romanian: arenă (ro) f
• Russian: аре́на (ru) f (aréna)
• Turkish: arena (tr)

a realm in which important events unfold

• Albanian: arenë (sq) f
• Catalan: arena (ca) f
• Danish: arena c
• Finnish: kenttä (fi), areena (fi), ala (fi)
• French: arène (fr) f
• German: Bühne (de) f
• Irish: saol m
• Italian: teatro (it) m

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: arena m

  Nynorsk: arena m

• Portuguese: arena (pt) f
• Romanian: arenă (ro) f
• Russian: аре́на (ru) f (aréna)

Anagrams

• Aaren, Arean, Arnea, anear

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Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin arēna.

Noun

arena f (plural arenas)

1. sand

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “arena”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

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Asturian

Alternative forms

• areña

Etymology

From Latin arēna.

Noun

arena f (plural arenes)

1. sand

Derived terms

• reló d'arena

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin arēna.

Noun

arena f (plural arenes)

1. sand

   Synonym: sorra

2. arena (an enclosed area for the presentation of sporting events)
3. arena (a realm in which important events unfold)

Further reading

• “arena” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “arena” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “arena” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “arena” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Galician

Etymology

From Latin arēna. Doublet of area.

Noun

arena f (plural arenas)

1. arena (an enclosed area for the presentation of sporting events)

Further reading

• “arena” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

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Italian

Alternative forms

• rena

Etymology

From Latin arēna, possibly from Etruscan. See also rena.

Pronunciation

• (esp. in sense 1 and 2) IPA^(key): /aˈre.na/
  • Hyphenation: a‧ré‧na
• (esp. in sense 3 and 4) IPA^(key): /aˈrɛ.na/
  • Hyphenation: a‧rè‧na

Noun

arena f (plural arene)

1. sand
2. beach or lido
3. space in a classical amphitheatre; arena
4. bullring and similar sporting spaces
5. cockpit (An enclosure for cockfights)

Synonyms

• (sand): sabbia, rena

Related terms

• arenoso

References

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Latin

Alternative forms

• harēna

Etymology

From an earlier *hasēna (compare Sabine fasēna), possibly from Etruscan.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈreː.na/, [aˈreː.n̪a]

Noun

arēna f (genitive arēnae); first declension

1. Alternative form of harēna
2. vocative singular of arēna

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	arēna	arēnae
Genitive	arēnae	arēnārum
Dative	arēnae	arēnīs
Accusative	arēnam	arēnās
Ablative	arēnā	arēnīs
Vocative	arēna	arēnae

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: arinã
  • Romanian: arină
• Italian: arena
• Neapolitan: arena
• Old French: areine
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: arena
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: arena
  • Occitan: arena
• Old Portuguese: arẽa
  • Galician: area
  • Portuguese: areia
    • Guinea-Bissau Creole: reia
    • Kabuverdianu: areia
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: arena
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: rene
• Sardinian: arena, rena
• Sicilian: arena, rina
• Venetian: rena

Borrowings

• → Albanian: rânë, rërë (early), arenë (late)
• → Basque: harea
• → Belarusian: арэна (arena)
• → Bulgarian: арена (arena)
• → Chinese: 阿雷納 (ā léi nà, aa3 leoi4 naap6)
• → Czech: aréna
• → English: arena
• → French: arène
  • → Romanian: arenă
• → French: aréna
• → Finnish: areena
• → German: Arena
• → Greek: αρένα (aréna)
• → Hungarian: aréna
• → Irish: airéine, airéana
• → Japanese: アリーナ (arīna)
• → Korean: 아레나 (arena)
• → Macedonian: арена (arena)
• → Northern Sami: arena
• → Norwegian: arena
• → Persian: آرنا‎ (ârenâ)
• → Polish: arena
• → Portuguese: arena
• → Russian: арена (arena)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: арена

  Latin: arena

• → Swedish: arena
• → Ukrainian: арена (arena)

Noun

arēnā f

1. ablative singular of arēna

References

• arena in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• arena in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• arena in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• arena in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin arēna.

Noun

arena f

1. sand

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Northern Sami

Pronunciation

Etymology

(This etymology is missing. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

arena

1. arena

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin arena, harena.

Noun

arena m (definite singular arenaen, indefinite plural arenaer, definite plural arenaene)

1. an arena
2. a venue

References

• “arena” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin arena, harena

Noun

arena m (definite singular arenaen, indefinite plural arenaer or arenaar, definite plural arenaene or arenaane)

1. an arena
2. a venue

References

• “arena” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin arēna (“sand”), possibly from Etruscan *𐌇𐌀𐌔𐌄𐌍𐌀 (*hasena). See also the inherited doublet areia.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.ˈɾe.nɐ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.ˈɾe.na/

Noun

arena f (plural arenas)

1. arena

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Sardinian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish arena, from Latin arena.

Noun

arena f

1. sand

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Scots

Verb

arena

1. aren't

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /arěːna/
• Hyphenation: a‧re‧na

Noun

aréna f (Cyrillic spelling аре́на)

1. arena

Declension

Declension of arena

	singular	plural
nominative	arena	arene
genitive	arene	arena
dative	areni	arenama
accusative	arenu	arene
vocative	areno	arene
locative	areni	arenama
instrumental	arenom	arenama

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin arēna, possibly of Etruscan origin. Compare English arena.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈɾena/
• Rhymes: -ena

Noun

arena f (plural arenas)

1. (geology) sand, gravel

   arena muerta — pure sand (useless for cultivation)

   arena movediza — quicksand

   chorro de arena — sandblast

2. (building, sports) bullfight arena; boxing ring

Derived terms

• arena de combate (“battle arena, fighting pit”)
• arenal
• arenoso
• grano de arena
• una de cal y otra de arena

 

Further reading

• “arena” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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Swedish

Noun

arena c

1. arena

Declension

Declension of arena
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	arena	arenan	arenor	arenorna
Genitive	arenas	arenans	arenors	arenornas