CATENA (catenae)

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Irregular inflected form: catenae   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does catena mean? 

• CATENA (noun)
  The noun CATENA has 1 sense:

1. a chain of connected ideas or passages or objects so arranged that each member is closely related to the preceding and following members (especially a series of patristic comments elucidating Christian dogma)

  Familiarity information: CATENA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATENA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A chain of connected ideas or passages or objects so arranged that each member is closely related to the preceding and following members (especially a series of patristic comments elucidating Christian dogma)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("catena" is a kind of...):

chain; concatenation (a series of things depending on each other as if linked together)

Derivation:

catenate; catenulate (arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for spores)