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Latin
Etymology
Probably borrowed from Sabine, from Proto-Italic *stregsno-, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *streg-sno-, from *(s)treg-, *(s)terg- (“to be stiff, rigid, strong”), and cognate with Old Irish trén (“strong”), Icelandic þrek (“strength”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
strēna f (genitive strēnae); first declension
- an auspicious sign, a (favorable) omen
- New Year's gift
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “strena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- strena 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)
- strena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 591
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From English strainer.
Noun
strena
- coffee or tea strainer