catena

From Medieval Latin, from Latin catēna (“chain”) (from which also chain).

catena (plural catenas or catenae)

1. A series of related items.
   • 1873, Walter Bagehot, Lombard Street:

     And, on the contrary, there is a whole catena of authorities, beginning with Sir Robert Peel and ending with Mr. Lowe, which say that the Banking Department of the Bank of England is only a Bank like any other bank [...]

2. (soil science) A series of distinct soils arrayed along a slope.
   • 2000, Ewan Anderson, Middle East: Geography and Geopolitics, Routledge, →ISBN, page 55:

     The changes in soil characteristics from the crest to the foot of a slope are together known as a catena.

• chain
• catenary
• catenative
• concatenate
• concatenation

• acetan

catena (plural catenas)

1. chain

From Latin catēna.

catena f (plural catene)

1. chain
2. bond, fetter; subordination, repression
3. tie, cord, bond
4. tether (a rope, cable etc. that holds something in place whilst allowing some movement)

• ordito

• catena alimentare
• catenaccio
• catena da neve
• catenaria
• catenella
• incatenare

• ancate
• cenata

The origin is uncertain. Probably connected with cassis (“hunting-net”).[1]

Pokorny derives catēna and cassis from Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“to link or weave together; chain, net”), with casa as another possible cognate.[2]

Martirosyan connects cassis and catēna with Old Armenian ցանց (cʿancʿ, “casting-net”) and derives all from a Mediterranean substrate.[3]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kaˈteː.na/

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catēna f (genitive catēnae); first declension

1. chain

First declension.

• catēnārius
• catēnātus
• catēnō
• catēnōsus
• catēnula

• catena in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• catena in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• catena in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• catena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to put some one in irons, chains: in vincula, in catenas conicere aliquem
    
• catena in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• catena in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin