gena

Borrowed from Latin gena (“cheek”). Doublet of chin.

gena (plural genae or genæ)

1. (zoology) The cheek; the feathered side of the under mandible of a bird.
2. (entomology) The part of the head to which the jaws of an insect are attached.
3. (entomology) The part of the head below the compound eyes of Diptera, or an analogous part of the head of larvae without compound eyes.

• Agne, Ange, Egan, Gean, agen, gean, nega-

gena f (plural genas, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of xena

• “gena”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

From Proto-Celtic *genus (“jaw, cheek, mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénus (“cheek, jaw, chin”). Compare Welsh gen, Old Irish giun, Latin gena.

• IPA^(key): /ɡenaː/

genā f

1. cheek

gena

1. indefinite genitive plural of gen

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛ.na/
• Rhymes: -ɛna
• Hyphenation: gè‧na

Borrowed from Latin gena (“cheek”).

gena f (plural gene) (archaic, literary)

1. cheek

   Synonym: guancia

   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XXXI, page 556, lines 61–63:

     Diffuso era per li occhi e per le gene ¶ di benigna letizia, in atto pio ¶ quale a tenero padre si conviene.

     O'erflowing was he in his eyes and cheeks with joy benign, in attitude of pity as to a tender father is becoming.

• gena in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

gena

1. inflection of genare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• nega

From Proto-Italic *genā, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénu-, *ǵénus (“chin, jaw, cheek”). The declension was most likely changed to avoid confusion with genus.

Cognates include Ancient Greek γένῡ̆ς (génū̆s), Sanskrit हनु (hánu), Persian چانه (čâne), Tocharian A śanweṃ, Old Armenian ծնաւտ (cnawt), Lithuanian žandas, Welsh gen, and Old English ċinn (English chin).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡɛ.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈd͡ʒɛː.na]

gena f (genitive genae); first declension

1. cheek

   Synonym: bucca

   • c. 45 BCE, Cicero, Tusculanae disputationes 3.12:

     Lacrimae perēdēre hūmōre exsanguēs genās.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. eye socket
3. (rare) eye or eyelid

First-declension noun.

• → English: gena (learned)
• Aromanian: dzeanã, dziane
• → Italian: gena
• Romanian: geană

• “gena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "gena", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “gena”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• genene (neuter and masculine)

gena n or m

1. definite neuter plural of gen

• genane

gena n or m

1. definite neuter plural of gen

ġēna

1. yet
2. still
   • Exeter Book, riddle 40

     Iċ eom on gōman ġēna swētra
     þonne þū bēobrēad blende mid huniġe;

     I am sweeter still in the mouth
     than when you blend bee-bread with honey

3. further

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “géna”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

From Proto-Bantu *-jíngɪda.

-géna

1. to enter, to go into [with locative]

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• IPA^(key): [ˈd͡ʒena]

gena f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of genă

From the adjective gen (“straight, through”), from Old Swedish gen, from Old Norse gegn, from Proto-Germanic *gagin (“against”).

gena (present genar, preterite genade, supine genat, imperative gena)

1. to take a shortcut

   De genade över gräsmattan

   They took a shortcut across the lawn

• gen
• genskjuta
• genväg

• “gena”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “gena”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “gena”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

• Agne, agen, ange, egna