transenna
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
transenna (plural transennas or transenne)
- (architecture) A screen.
- 1881, George Gilbert Scott, An Essay on the History of English Church Architecture:
- By this reversed direction of the high altars in the two churches each altar was, through the transenna, in view of the other.
- 1982, Meredith P. Lillich, Studies in Cistercian art and architecture, page 134:
- Very pertinent relationships between these grisailles of the vegetal type and Islamic transennas have been established by Eva Frodl-Kraft, between that of Obazine with palmettes enchâssées, and a transenna from the Umayyad castle of Qasr-el Heir al Gharbi (about 727-750), today reconstructed at the National Museum in Damascus, and with a plaque, probably of Syrian origin, reused over a tomb in San Marco in Venice.
- 2015, Margaret Visse, The Geometry of Love: Space, Time, Mystery, and Meaning in an Ordinary Church:
- The transenne have simple geometrical designs—a common one consists of arching shapes suggestive of waves of water—and wherever these stone screens survive they give dim rippling or starlike lighting effects to church interiors.
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /tranˈsen.na/, (traditional) /tranˈsɛn.na/[1]
- Rhymes: -enna, (traditional) -ɛnna
- Hyphenation: tran‧sén‧na, (traditional) tran‧sèn‧na
Etymology 1 edit
From Latin.
Noun edit
transenna f (plural transenne)
- barrier, barricade (for crowd control)
- (architecture) screen
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
transenna
- inflection of transennare:
References edit
- ^ transenna in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Perhaps borrowed from Etruscan.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /tranˈsen.na/, [t̪rä̃ːˈs̠ɛnːä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /tranˈsen.na/, [t̪ränˈsɛnːä]
Noun edit
trānsenna f (genitive trānsennae); first declension
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | trānsenna | trānsennae |
Genitive | trānsennae | trānsennārum |
Dative | trānsennae | trānsennīs |
Accusative | trānsennam | trānsennās |
Ablative | trānsennā | trānsennīs |
Vocative | trānsenna | trānsennae |
References edit
- ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “transenna”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 700
- “transenna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- transenna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.