Dictionaries › Catalan

dena

Pronunciation: [ˈde̞.nə]

“dena” is a Catalan word. Its 5 meanings in English:

noun

  1. decade of the rosary
  2. large bead dividing the beads of the rosary into groups of ten, or group of ten beads so marked
  3. one of the territorial divisions of the town of Morella in the Valencian Community (formerly ten in number)
  4. a group of ten people
  5. God

In Catalan

  1. Sèrie de deu avemaries que forma part del rosari.
  2. Gra més gros d’un rosari que separa grups de deu grans més petits, usat per a comptar els gloriapatris.

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan deena, from Vulgar Latin decena, from Latin decēnus (“tenth”). More at desè.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “dena” there

More Catalan words

About this dictionary

The Catalan dictionary on Glottosphere has 49,075 entries with a page. Browse the Catalan dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence. Definitions in Catalan are from the Catalan Wiktionary, under the same licence.