# sena
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sēna.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈsɛ.nə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈse.na]
* Homophone: cena

### Noun

sena f (plural senes)
* (dice games) sice (the number six in a game of dice)

#### Derived terms

* fer senes

### Further reading

* “sena” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
* “sena” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “sena”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsɛna]

### Noun

sena n
* genitive singular of seno

## Icelandic
### Etymology

Borrowed from Danish scene.

### Noun

sena f (genitive singular senu, nominative plural senur)
* a scene (in film or theatre)
    Synonym: atriði

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “sena” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Sanskrit सेना (senā).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈse.na]
* Hyphenation: sé‧na

### Noun

séna (plural sena-sena)
* (archaic) army
    Synonyms: bala, laskar, pasukan, prajurit, serdadu, tentara

#### Related terms

* senapati
* senaya

### Further reading

* “sena” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈseː.na/, [ˈs̠eːnä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈse.na/, [ˈsɛːnä]
* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈseː.naː/, [ˈs̠eːnäː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈse.na/, [ˈsɛːnä]

### Numeral

sēna
* inflection of sēnus:
** nominative/vocative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

### Numeral

sēnā
* ablative feminine singular of sēnus

### References

* "sena", 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)
* “sena”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “sena”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

## Latvian
### Adjective

sena
* inflection of sens:
** genitive masculine singular
** nominative feminine singular

## Lithuanian
### Pronunciation

* (senà) IPA: [sʲɛˈnɐ]
* (sẽna) IPA: [ˈsʲæːnɐ]

### Adjective

senà f
* nominative/instrumental/vocative feminine singular of senas

### Adjective

sẽna
* neuter of senas

## Lower Sorbian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɛna/

### Noun

sena
* inflection of seno:
** genitive singular
** nominative/accusative plural

## Maltese
### Etymology

From Arabic سَنَة (sana).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɛ.na/
* Homophone: sengħa (except archaically)

### Noun

sena f (dual sentejn, plural snin)
* year
    is-sena li għaddiet ― last year
    is-sena l-oħra ― last year
    is-sena d-dieħla ― next year
    is-sena li ġejja ― next year
    is-sena li jmiss ― next year
** 1949-1952, Anton Buttigieg, “Il-Bejta ta’ Dejjem”, in Qasba mar-Riħ, published 1977:Qalbi xebgħet bil-bejta li dejjem ta’ kull sena titwaqqa’ kull ħarifa, u kull April tinbena,(please add an English translation of this quotation)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* senen

### Noun

sena m or f
* definite feminine singular of sene

### Anagrams

* anse, asen, ensa, nesa, anes

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

sena f (definite singular sena, indefinite plural sener or senor, definite plural senene or senone)
* definite singular of sene
* (pre-2012) alternative form of sene

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀲𑁂𑀦 (Brahmi script)
* सेन (Devanagari script)
* সেন (Bengali script)
* සෙන (Sinhalese script)
* သေန or သေၼ (Burmese script)
* เสน or เสนะ (Thai script)
* ᩈᩮᨶ (Tai Tham script)
* ເສນ or ເສນະ (Lao script)
* សេន (Khmer script)
* 𑄥𑄬𑄚 (Chakma script)

### Etymology

From Sanskrit श्येन (śyena, “falcon, eagle”).

### Noun

sena m
* eagle, hawk or falcon

#### Declension
### References

* Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “sena”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsẽ.nɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsẽ.nɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈse.na/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈse.nɐ/
* Homophones: cena, Sena, Senna
* Hyphenation: se‧na

### Etymology 1

From Latin sēnī.

#### Noun

sena f (plural senas)
* (card games) six (a card with six spots)
* (dice games) sice (dice with six pips)

#### See also

Playing cards in Portuguese · cartas de baralho (layout · text) :
| ás | dois, duque | três, terno | quatro, quadra | cinco, quina | seis, sena | sete, bisca, manilha |
| oito | nove | dez | valete | dama | rei | jóquer, curinga |

### Etymology 2

From the genus name Senna.

#### Noun

sena f (plural senas)
* senna (any of several trees of the genus Senna and Cassia)

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

sena m or f by sense (plural senas or sena)
* Alternative spelling of Sena

### Further reading

* “sena”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “sena”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sěnь.

#### Alternative forms

* sjȅna (Ijekavian)
* sina (Chakavian, Ikavian)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sêna/
* Hyphenation: se‧na

#### Noun

sȅna f (Cyrillic spelling се̏на)
* shadow
* silhouette
* shade
* umbrage
* ghost
* wraith
* adumbration, shading
* hatching

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

sena (Cyrillic spelling сена)
* genitive singular of seno

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin sēna.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsena/ [ˈse.na]
* Rhymes: -ena
* Syllabification: se‧na

### Noun

sena f (plural senas)
* (dice games) sice (the number six in a game of dice)

### Further reading

* “sena”, 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

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

sena
* inflection of sen:
** definite singular
** plural

### Noun

sena c
* (anatomy) a tendon, a sinew

#### Derived terms

* hälsena (“Achilles tendon”)
* senig (“sinewy, wiry”)

#### See also

* ligament (“ligament”)

### References

* sena in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* sena in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* sena in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* Svensk MeSH

### Anagrams

* anse, asen, enas, nesa, snea

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cena, from Latin cēna, from Old Latin cesna.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈsena/ [ˈsɛː.n̪ɐ]
* Rhymes: -ena
* Syllabification: se‧na

### Noun

sena (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜈ)
* dinner; supper
    Synonym: hapunan

#### Related terms

* Santa Sena
* senakulo

### Further reading

* Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 127

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈse.na]

### Noun

sena
* dough

### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh