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harena

Pronunciation: [haˈreː.na]

“harena” is a Latin word. Its 8 meanings in English:

noun

  1. sand
  2. slime; mud
  3. sandy desert or wastes
  4. beach; strand; coastland (at the seashore)
  5. the place of combat in the amphitheatre (strewn with sand): the arena
  6. combat in the amphitheatre
  7. the combatants in the arena
  8. the arena (the realm in which a dispute unfolds)

Etymology

From Old Latin hasēna, possibly from Etruscan; compare Sabine fasēna, Etruscan 𐌚𐌀𐌑𐌄𐌍𐌀 (faśena, “sand; ashes; human remains”). Otherwise, as De Vaan suggests, it might be from a verb suffixed with *-es-no-, but none fits and so the etymology is unknown.

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