catena

See also: Catena and catenă

English

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Catena

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Medieval Latin catena, from Latin catēna (“chain”). Doublet of chain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈtiːnə/

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• catena compound

Related terms

• catenal
• catenary
• catenative
• chain
• concatenate
• concatenation

Translations

series of related items

Bulgarian: верига (bg) f (veriga) Finnish: ketju (fi) Portuguese: cadeia (pt) f, série (pt) f

a series of distinct soils arrayed along a slope

Indonesian: katena Portuguese: catena f

Anagrams

• acetan

Interlingua

Noun

catena (plural catenas)

1. chain

Italian

Etymology

From Latin catēna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈte.na/
• Rhymes: -ena
• Hyphenation: ca‧té‧na

• Audio:

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Noun

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)

Synonyms

• ordito

Related terms

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

Further reading

• catena in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• ancate, catane, cenata