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Is catena a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word catena is a Scrabble US word. The word catena is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is catena a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word catena is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

C3A1T1E1N1A1

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C4A1T1E1N2A1

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6-letter words (1 found)

CATENA,

5-letter words (4 found)

ACETA,ANTAE,ENACT,TACAN,

4-letter words (14 found)

ACNE,ACTA,ANCE,ANTA,ANTE,CANE,CANT,CATE,CENT,ETNA,NEAT,TACE,TANA,TANE,

3-letter words (20 found)

ACE,ACT,ANA,ANE,ANT,ATE,CAA,CAN,CAT,EAN,EAT,ETA,NAE,NAT,NET,TAE,TAN,TEA,TEC,TEN,

2-letter words (11 found)

AA,AE,AN,AT,EA,EN,ET,NA,NE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 51 words from catena according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of catena

catena

Etymology

From Medieval Latin catena, from Latin catēna (“chain”). Doublet of chain.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kəˈtiːnə/

Noun

catena (plural catenas or catenae)

  1. A series of related items.
  2. (soil science) A series of distinct soils arrayed along a slope.

Derived terms

  • catena compound

Related terms

  • chain
  • catenal
  • catenary
  • catenative
  • concatenate
  • concatenation

Translations

Anagrams

  • acetan

Interlingua

Noun

catena (plural catenas)

  1. chain

Italian

Etymology

From Latin catēna.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaˈte.na/
  • Rhymes: -ena
  • Hyphenation: ca‧té‧na

Noun

catena f (plural catene)

  1. chain
  2. bond, fetter; subordination, repression
  3. tie, cord, bond
  4. tether (a rope, cable etc. that holds something in place whilst allowing some movement)

Synonyms

  • ordito

Related terms

  • catena alimentare
  • catenaccio
  • catena da neve
  • catenaria
  • catenella
  • incatenare

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • ancate, catane, cenata

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *katesnā, further etymology unknown. Probably connected with caterva (“crowd”) and cassis (“hunting-net”).

Pokorny derives catēna, caterva and cassis from Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“to link or weave together; chain, net”), with casa as another possible cognate.

Martirosyan connects cassis and catēna with Old Armenian ցանց (cʻancʻ, “casting-net”) and derives all from a Mediterranean substrate.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /kaˈteː.na/, [käˈt̪eːnä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kaˈte.na/, [käˈt̪ɛːnä]

Noun

catēna f (genitive catēnae); first declension

  1. chain

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • catella
  • catēnārius
  • catēnātus
  • catēnō
  • catēnōsus
  • catēnula

Descendants

Borrowings

References

Further reading

  • “catena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “catena”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • catena 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)
  • catena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “catena”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “catena”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin catēna (“chain”). Doublet of cadeia.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ca‧te‧na

Noun

catena f (plural catenas)

  1. (geology) catena (series of distinct soils along a slope)

Source: wiktionary.org