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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin habena.
Noun
habena (plural habenae)
- A restricting bandage or frenum
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Latin habeō. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
Noun
habēna f (genitive habēnae); first declension
- thong, rein, lash, bridle
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 1.62–63:
- Rēgemque dedit quī foedere certō
et premere et laxās scīret dare iussus habēnās.- And gave a king who by chartered agreement would know how to restrain as well as to give loosened reins , having been commanded .
(Jupiter commands King Aeolus who metaphorically can harness the winds much as a charioteer drives horses. See Aeolus (son of Hippotes).)
524 CE, Boethius,
Consolation of Philosophy 4.1m:
- Hīc rēgum sceptrum dominus tenet
Orbisque habēnās temperat- Here the lord of kings holds his sceptre, and controls the reins of the world
- (naval, of a ship's rigging) sheet
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
- → Proto-Brythonic: *aβuɨn (see there for further descendants)
References
- “habena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “habena”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- habena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- with loose reins: freno remisso; effusis habenis
- to tighten the reins: habenas adducere
- to slacken the reins: habenas permittere
- “habena”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “habena”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin