dena

Inherited from Old Catalan deena, from Vulgar Latin decena, from Latin decēnus (“tenth”). More at desè.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

dena f (plural denes)

1. (Roman Catholicism) decade of the rosary
2. (Roman Catholicism) large bead dividing the beads of the rosary into groups of ten, or group of ten beads so marked
3. one of the territorial divisions of the town of Morella in the Valencian Community (formerly ten in number)
4. (archaic) a group of ten people

Euphemism for Déu.

• déna (pre-2016 spelling)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

dena m (plural denes)

1. (vulgar) God

• Used in blasphemous expressions such as me cago en dena (literally “I shit on God”).

From Proto-Celtic *dinati.

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key):
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key):

dena

1. to absorb, suck

• Cornish-English Dictionary from Maga's Online Dictionary
• Akademi Kernewek Gerlyver Kernewek (FSS) Cornish Dictionary (SWF) (in Cornish), 2018, published 2018, page 35

Clipping of denaturoitu. Compare tenu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdenɑ/,
• Rhymes: -enɑ
• Syllabification^(key): de‧na

dena (slang)

1. drunkard

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:juoppo

dēna

1. inflection of dēnus:
   1. nominative/vocative/ablative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

dēnā

1. ablative feminine singular of dēnus

• dena in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

dena

1. man

• James Kari, Lower Tanana Athabaskan Listening and Writing Exercises (1991)

• IPA^(key): /ˈde.nɑ/

dena

1. nominative/accusative/genitive plural of dene

dena

1. fig