gena

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

gena (plural genae)

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 analagous part of the head of larvae without compound eyes.

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

From Proto-Celtic *genus (“jaw, cheek, mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénus (“cheek, jaw, chin”). Compare Welsh gen, Old Irish gin, 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) (obsolete, 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 γένυς (génus), Sanskrit हनु (hánu), Persian چانه (čâne), Tocharian A śanwem, Old Armenian ծնաւտ (cnawt), Lithuanian žandas, Welsh gen, and Old English ċinn (English chin).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡe.na/, [ˈɡɛnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒe.na/, [ˈd͡ʒɛːnä]

gena f (genitive genae); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

• (cheek): bucca

• → 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’s 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

From Proto-Bantu *-jíngɪda.

-géna

1. to enter, to go into [+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 (SO)
• gena in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• gena in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• Agne, agen, ange, egna