habena

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin habena.

Noun

habena (plural habenae)

  1. 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

  1. 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
  2. (naval, of a ship's rigging) sheet

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative habēna habēnae
Genitive habēnae habēnārum
Dative habēnae habēnīs
Accusative habēnam habēnās
Ablative habēnā habēnīs
Vocative habēna habēnae

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
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