sagena

Borrowed from Russian са́же́нь (sážénʹ).

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

sagena f (plural sagene)

1. sazhen

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σαγήνη (sagḗnē, “dragnet”).

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

sagēna f (genitive sagēnae); first declension

1. seine (large fishing net)

First-declension noun.

• “sagena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "sagena", 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)
• sagena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “sagena”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers