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Estonian
Noun
laena
- essive singular of lagi
Latin
Etymology
Possibly from Etruscan, from Ancient Greek χλαῖνᾰ (khlaîna, “cloak, wrapper”).
Pronunciation
Noun
laena f (genitive laenae); first declension
- a thick, often richly decorated woolen cloak worn over a toga or pallium, usually fastened by a pin
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “laena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “laena”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- laena 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)
- laena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “laena”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “laena”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin