vena

From Latin vēna. Doublet of vein.

vena (plural venae)

1. (medicine, anatomy) vein.

From Latin vēna.

vena f (plural venes)

1. vein

Inherited from Old Catalan vena, from Latin vēna, of uncertain Proto-Indo-European origin.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbɛ.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈvə.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈve.na]

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vena f (plural venes)

1. vein

• vena porta

• venal
• venós

• “vena” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “vena” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

vena

1. fire
2. firewood

Borrowed from Latin vēna.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋenɑ/, [ˈʋe̞nɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -enɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ve‧na

vena

1. (anatomy) vein (blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart)

The term vena is only used by experts in scientific or medical context.

• laskimo

• Neva, neva

Learned borrowing from Latin vēna (“vein”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛna]
• Hyphenation: vè‧na

vena (plural vena-vena, first-person possessive venaku, second-person possessive venamu, third-person possessive venanya)

1. (medicine) vein, a blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.

• “vena” 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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈve.na/
• Rhymes: -ena
• Hyphenation: vé‧na

From Latin vēna, of uncertain Proto-Indo-European origin.

vena f (plural vene)

1. (anatomy, botany, zoology) vein (all senses)
2. grain (of wood)
3. talent, aptitude, gift, bent
4. inspiration
5. inclination, desire

   in vena di ― in the mood for

6. lode, seam (of a mineral)

• svenare

• venare
• venato
• venatura
• venoso

vena

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

• Neva, nave, vane

Of uncertain origin;[1] proposed derivations include:

• From Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-, the same root of via (“road”).
• From Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁-, the same root of venēnum (“juice; venom”).
• From Proto-Indo-European *weyp-, the same root of vibex (“weal, welt”).
• From a root common to Lithuanian gýsla (“vein”) and Russian жи́ла (žíla, “vein”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯eː.na/, [ˈu̯eːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈve.na/, [ˈvɛːnä]

vēna f (genitive vēnae); first declension

1. (anatomy) a vein, blood vessel
   1. an artery
2. (transferred sense, of things that resemble a vein)
   1. a watercourse
   2. a vein of metals
   3. (anatomy) the urinary passage
   4. a vein or streak of wood or stone
   5. a row of trees in a garden
   6. (anatomy) the penis
3. (figurative)
   1. strength
   2. the interior, the innate or natural quality or nature of something; the innermost feelings, spring, pulse
   3. one's natural bent, genius, disposition, vein

First-declension noun.

• vēnātilis
• vēnōsus
• vēnula

• “vena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vena”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vena 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)

• venen

vena f or m

1. definite feminine singular of vene

From Old Norse veina, from Proto-Germanic *wainōną.

vēna

1. to wail, to lament

Borrowed from Latin vēna.

• IPA^(key): /ʋěːna/
• Hyphenation: ve‧na

véna f (Cyrillic spelling ве́на)

1. (anatomy, botany, zoology) vein (all senses)

   Antonym: aorta

• “vena” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Inherited from Old Spanish vena, from Latin vēna, of uncertain Proto-Indo-European origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbena/ [ˈbe.na]

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• Rhymes: -ena
• Syllabification: ve‧na

vena f (plural venas)

1. vein

• “vena”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Borrowed from English vein.

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vena (n class, plural vena)

1. vein