sagena
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Russian са́же́нь (sážénʹ).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sagena f (plural sagene)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek σαγήνη (sagḗnē, “dragnet”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /saˈɡeː.na/, [s̠äˈɡeːnä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /saˈd͡ʒe.na/, [säˈd͡ʒɛːnä]
Noun edit
sagēna f (genitive sagēnae); first declension
- seine (large fishing net)
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | sagēna | sagēnae |
| Genitive | sagēnae | sagēnārum |
| Dative | sagēnae | sagēnīs |
| Accusative | sagēnam | sagēnās |
| Ablative | sagēnā | sagēnīs |
| Vocative | sagēna | sagēnae |
References edit
- “sagena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sagena in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- sagena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “sagena”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers