# carena
## English
### Noun

carena (uncountable)
* Aminophylline.
** 1945, League of Nations, Bulletin of the Health Organisation, page 591:... (theophylline dissolved in ethylendiamine; corresponding to the brands of aminophylline and carena), by intravenous or intragluteal injections for from 3-10 days, according to the severity of the symptoms.

## Catalan
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin carīna (“keel”), influenced by Ligurian / Italian carena.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [kəˈɾɛ.nə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [kəˈɾə.nə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [kaˈɾe.na]

#### Noun

carena f (plural carenes)
* (nautical) keel (of a ship)
* (construction) ridgepole
* (agriculture) ridge (between two furrows)
* (geology) ridge, crest
** 2001, Oriol de Bolòs i Capdevila, Vegetació dels Països Catalans:Per una banda, prats secs als sòls poc profunds de les carenes, per l'altra, prats molls i jonqueres al fons de les valls.On the one side, dry meadows on the shallow soil of the ridges, on the other, wet meadows and rush beds at the bottom of the valleys.

##### Derived terms

* carenar
* carenejar
* carener

#### Further reading

* “carena” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
* “carena”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

carena
* inflection of carenar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈrɛ.na/, /kaˈre.na/
* Rhymes: -ɛna, -ena
* Hyphenation: ca‧rè‧na, ca‧ré‧na

### Etymology 1

From Latin carīna, borrowed via Ligurian.

#### Noun

carena f (plural carene)
* (nautical) keel (of a ship)
    Synonym: chiglia

### Etymology 2

Form of carenare.

#### Verb

carena
* inflection of carenare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### References

* ↑ carena in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Further reading

* carena in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* Aracne, aracne, arance, arcane, carnea, rancea

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀘𑀭𑁂𑀦 (Brahmi script)
* चरेन (Devanagari script)
* চরেন (Bengali script)
* චරෙන (Sinhalese script)
* စရေန or ၸရေၼ (Burmese script)
* จเรน or จะเรนะ (Thai script)
* ᨧᩁᩮᨶ (Tai Tham script)
* ຈເຣນ or ຈະເຣນະ (Lao script)
* ចរេន (Khmer script)
* 𑄌𑄢𑄬𑄚 (Chakma script)

### Noun

carena
* instrumental singular of cara (“walker; frequenting”)

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /kaˈɾẽ.nɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /kaˈɾẽ.nɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /kaˈɾe.na/
* (Portugal) IPA: /kɐˈɾe.nɐ/
* Hyphenation: ca‧re‧na

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin carīna.

#### Noun

carena f (plural carenas)
* (nautical) bottom (parts of a vessel that is always underwater)
* (colloquial) teasing

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

carena
* inflection of carenar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “carena”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French caréner, from Latin carenare.

### Verb

a carena (third-person singular present carenează, past participle carenat) 1st conjugation
* to careen

#### Conjugation
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈɾena/ [kaˈɾe.na]
* Rhymes: -ena
* Syllabification: ca‧re‧na

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin carīna.

#### Noun

carena f (plural carenas)
* (nautical) bottom (parts of a vessel that is always underwater)
* (colloquial) teasing

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

carena
* inflection of carenar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “carena”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10