cadena

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See also: Cadena, cadéna, and cadenã

Aragonese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin catēna.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaˈdena/
  • Syllabification: ca‧de‧na
  • Rhymes: -ena

Noun

cadena f (plural cadenas)

  1. 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
  • Syllabification: ca‧de‧na

Noun

cadena f (plural cadenes)

  1. chain
  2. (telecommunications) channel

Derived terms

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin catēna. Compare Occitan cadena, French chaîne.

Pronunciation

Noun

cadena f (plural cadenes)

  1. chain
  2. (telecommunications) channel
  3. chain, string (series of events)
  4. (computing) string

Derived 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

  1. 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

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Noun

cadena f (plural cadenas)

  1. 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)

  1. chain (series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal)
  2. necklace (article of jewelry that is worn around the neck)
  3. network (group of affiliated television stations)
  4. (broadcasting, television and radio) channel (specific radio frequency or band of frequencies)
  5. (computing) string (ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Cebuano: kadena
  • → Huave: galen
  • → Tagalog: kadena
  • → Zoogocho Zapotec: gden

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