strena

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See also: štrena

Latin

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Sabine, from Proto-Italic *stregsno-, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *streg-sno-, from *(s)treg-, *(s)terg- (“to be stiff, rigid, strong”), and cognate with Old Irish trén (“strong”), Icelandic þrek (“strength”).^[1]

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈstreː.na/, [ˈs̠t̪reːnä]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈstre.na/, [ˈst̪rɛːnä]

Noun

strēna f (genitive strēnae); first declension

an auspicious sign, a (favorable) omen
New Year's gift

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	strēna	strēnae
genitive	strēnae	strēnārum
dative	strēnae	strēnīs
accusative	strēnam	strēnās
ablative	strēnā	strēnīs
vocative	strēna	strēnae

Derived terms

Descendants

Catalan: estrena
Italian: strenna
Ladino: estrena
Old French: estreine
- French: étrenne
Old Galician-Portuguese: *estrẽa
- Galician: estrea
- Portuguese: estreia
Sicilian: strina
Spanish: estrena, estreno

References

“strena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
strena 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)
strena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 591

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English strainer.

Noun

strena

coffee or tea strainer

[1] De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 591

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