# lena
## Franco-Provençal
### Alternative forms

* luna (ORB)

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin lūna.

### Noun

lena f (plural lenes) (ORB, broad)
* moon

#### Related terms

* delon

### References

* lune in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
* lena in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

### Further information

* AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 361: “la luna” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
* ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 788: “lune” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “lūna”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 5: J L, page 446

## Hawaiian
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *renga, from Proto-Oceanic *renga. Cognate with Tahitian reʻa, Samoan lega, Tongan enga and Maori rengarenga (“Arthropodium cirratum”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈle.na/, [ˈlɛ.nə]

### Noun

lena
* turmeric

#### Synonyms

* ʻōlena

### References

* ↑ “Renga”, in Te Māra Reo, Benson Family Trust, 2022
* Tyron, Darell (1994) “Oceanic plant names”, in A.K. Pawley and M.D. Ross, editors, Austronesian Terminologies: Continuity and Change, Canberra, Australia: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 492-3

## Irish
### Alternative forms

* le n-a (superseded)

### Etymology

Fusion of le (“with”) with various meanings of a. The -n- is analogical to prepositions like i.

### Particle

lena (triggers eclipsis, in regular past tenses lenar)
* with which, with whom (indirect relative; not used in the past tense except with some irregular verbs)
    an t-ord lena bhfuil sé ag briseadh an chathaoir ― the sledgehammer with which he is breaking the chair
    an bhean lena dúirt sé é ― the woman to whom he told it (literally, “the woman with whom he said it”)

#### Usage notes

"With which" may also be expressed with the indirect relative particle before the verb and the appropriate inflected form of le in its original position in the clause:
* an t-ord a bhfuil sé ag briseadh an chathaoir leis ― the sledgehammer that he is breaking the chair with [it]
* an bhean a dúirt sé léi é ― the woman that he told it to [her]

### Contraction

lena
* Contraction of le (“with”) + a (various meanings).
    ‘with his’ (triggers lenition): lena dheartháir ― with his brother
    ‘with her’ (triggers h-prothesis): lena hathair ― with her father
    ‘with their’ (triggers eclipsis): lena ndeartháir ― with their brother

#### Related terms

| Basic form | Contracted with | Contracted with | Contracted with | Contracted with | Contracted with | Contracted with | Contracted with | Copular forms | Copular forms | Copular forms |
| Basic form | an (“the sg”) | na (“the pl”) | mo (“my”) | do (“your”) | a (“his, her, their; which (present)”) | ár (“our”) | ar (“which (past)”) | (before consonant) | (present/future before vowel) | (past/conditional before vowel) |
| de (“from”) | den | de na desna* | de mo dem* | de do ded*, det* | dá | dár | dár | dar | darb | darbh |
| do (“to, for”) | don | do na dosna* | do mo dom* | do do dod*, dot* | dá | dár | dár | dar | darb | darbh |
| faoi (“under, about”) | faoin | faoi na | faoi mo | faoi do | faoina | faoinár | faoinar | faoinar | faoinarb | faoinarbh |
| i (“in”) | sa, san | sna | i mo im* | i do id*, it* | ina | inár | inar | inar | inarb | inarbh |
| le (“with”) | leis an | leis na | le mo lem* | le do led*, let* | lena | lenár | lenar | lenar | lenarb | lenarbh |
| ó (“from, since”) | ón | ó na ósna* | ó mo óm* | ó do ód*, ót* | óna | ónár | ónar | ónar | ónarb | ónarbh |
| trí (“through”) | tríd an | trí na | trí mo | trí do | trína | trínár | trínar | trínar | trínarb | trínarbh |
| *Dialectal. |||||||||||

### References

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “lena”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Italian
### Etymology

From alenare.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈle.na/, /ˈlɛ.na/
* Rhymes: -ena, -ɛna
* Hyphenation: lé‧na, lè‧na

### Noun

lena f (plural lene)
* (literary) breath
    Synonym: respiro
** 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 22–24; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:E come quei che con lena affannata, ¶ uscito fuor del pelago a la riva, ¶ si volge a l’acqua perigliosa e guata, […]And even as he, who, with distressful breath, ¶ ⁠Forth issued from the sea upon the shore, ¶ ⁠Turns to the water perilous and gazes; […]
* (figurative) force, energy, vigour
    Synonyms: forza, vigore

#### Related terms

* allenare
* di buona lena
* senza tregua

### References

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

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* ENAL, lane

## Latin
### Etymology

Feminization of lēnō (“pimp”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈleː.na/, [ˈɫ̪eːnä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈle.na/, [ˈlɛːnä]

### Noun

lēna f (genitive lēnae); first declension
* (slang) a procuress, bawd, madame, seductress, enticer

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

### References

* “lena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “lena”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "lena", 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)
* lena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Malagasy
### Adjective

lena
* wet; moist
    Antonym: maina

## Serbo-Croatian
### Adjective

lena
* inflection of len:
** feminine nominative/vocative singular
** indefinite masculine/neuter genitive singular
** indefinite animate masculine accusative singular
** neuter nominative/accusative/vocative plural

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

lena
* inflection of len:
** definite singular
** plural

### Noun

lena
* (slang) tramadol
    Synonym: tram

### References

* Slangopedia

### Anagrams

* Elna, alen