transenna

English

Etymology

From Italian transenna.

Noun

transenna (plural transennas or transenne)

1. (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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tranˈsen.na/, (traditional) /tranˈsɛn.na/
• Rhymes: -enna, (traditional) -ɛnna
• Syllabification: tran‧sén‧na, (traditional) tran‧sèn‧na

Etymology 1

From Latin.

Noun

transenna f (plural transenne)

1. barrier, barricade (for crowd control)
2. (architecture) screen

Derived terms

• transennare

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

transenna

1. inflection of transennare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Alternative forms

• trassenna, trāsenna

Etymology

Perhaps borrowed from Etruscan.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tranˈsen.na/, [t̪rä̃ːˈs̠ɛnːä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tranˈsen.na/, [t̪ränˈsɛnːä]

Noun

trānsenna f (genitive trānsennae); first declension

1. A noose, springe, net
2. A latticework
3. A snare, trap

Declension

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

• “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