cadena
See also: Cadena, cadéna, and cadenã
Aragonese
Etymology
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Noun
cadena f (plural cadenas)
- chain
References
- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “cadena”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
Asturian
Etymology
From Latin catēna.
Noun
cadena f (plural cadenes)
- chain
- (telecommunications) channel
Derived terms
- en cadena
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin catēna. Compare Occitan cadena, French chaîne.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /kəˈdə.nə/
- (Central) IPA(key): /kəˈdɛ.nə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /kaˈde.na/
Noun
cadena f (plural cadenes)
- chain
- (telecommunications) channel
- chain, string (series of events)
- (computing) string
Derived terms
- en cadena
- cadenar
Related terms
- cadenat
References
- “cadena” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Chibcha
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Spanish cadena.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kadena/
Noun
cadena
- chain
References
- Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.
Occitan
Alternative forms
- chadena (Lemosin)
- chaena
Etymology
From Old Occitan cadena, from Latin catēna.
Pronunciation
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Noun
cadena f (plural cadenas)
- chain
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish cadena, from Latin catēna. Cognate with English chain.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈdena/ [kaˈð̞e.na]
- Rhymes: -ena
- Syllabification: ca‧de‧na
Noun
cadena f (plural cadenas)
- chain (series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal)
- necklace (article of jewelry that is worn around the neck)
- network (group of affiliated television stations)
- (broadcasting, television and radio) channel (specific radio frequency or band of frequencies)
- (computing) string (ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity)
Derived terms
- cadenilla (diminutive)
- cadenita (diminutive)
- cadena alimentaria
- cadena de frío
- cadena de mando
- cadena de montaje
- cadena de nieve
- cadena perpetua
- cadena trófica
- minicadena
- reacción en cadena
- tirar de la cadena
Related terms
- encadenar
Descendants
- → Cebuano: kadena
- → Huave: galen
- → Tagalog: kadena
- → Zoogocho Zapotec: gden
Further reading
- “cadena”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014