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Aragonese
Etymology
Inherited from Latin catēna.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈdena/
- Rhymes: -ena
- Syllabification: ca‧de‧na
Noun
cadena f (plural cadenas)
- chain
References
- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “cadena”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
- “cadena”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)
Asturian
Etymology
From Latin catēna.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈdena/,
- Rhymes: -ena
- Hyphenation: ca‧de‧na
Noun
cadena f (plural cadenes)
- chain
- (telecommunications) channel
Derived terms
Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Latin catēna. Compare Occitan cadena, French chaîne.
Pronunciation
Noun
cadena f (plural cadenes)
- chain
- (telecommunications) channel
- chain, string (series of events)
- (computing) string
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- “cadena” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Chibcha
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish cadena.
Pronunciation
Noun
cadena
- chain
References
- Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.
Occitan
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Occitan cadena, from Latin catēna.
Pronunciation
Noun
cadena f (plural cadenas)
- chain
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish cadena, from Latin catēna. Cognate with English chain.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈdena/
- Rhymes: -ena
- Syllabification: ca‧de‧na
Noun
cadena f (plural cadenas)
- chain (series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal)
- necklace (article of jewelry that is worn around the neck)
- network (group of affiliated television stations)
- (broadcasting, television and radio) channel (specific radio frequency or band of frequencies)
- (computing) string (ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
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