carena

carena (uncountable)

1. Aminophylline.
   • 1945, League of Nations, Bulletin of the Health Organisation, page 591:

     ... (theophylline dissolved in ethylendiamine; corresponding to the brands of aminophylline and carena), by intravenous or intragluteal injections for from 3-10 days, according to the severity of the symptoms.

Inherited from Latin carīna (“keel”), influenced by Ligurian / Italian carena.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kəˈɾɛ.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kəˈɾə.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kaˈɾe.na]

carena f (plural carenes)

1. (nautical) keel (of a ship)
2. (construction) ridgepole
3. (agriculture) ridge (between two furrows)
4. (geology) ridge, crest
   • 2001, Oriol de Bolòs i Capdevila, Vegetació dels Països Catalans:

     Per una banda, prats secs als sòls poc profunds de les carenes, per l'altra, prats molls i jonqueres al fons de les valls.

     On the one side, dry meadows on the shallow soil of the ridges, on the other, wet meadows and rush beds at the bottom of the valleys.

• “carena” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “carena”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

carena

1. inflection of carenar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /kaˈrɛ.na/, /kaˈre.na/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛna, -ena
• Hyphenation: ca‧rè‧na, ca‧ré‧na

From Latin carīna, borrowed via Ligurian.

carena f (plural carene)

1. (nautical) keel (of a ship)

   Synonym: chiglia

Form of carenare.

carena

1. inflection of carenare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

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

• Aracne, aracne, arance, arcane, carnea, rancea

carena

1. instrumental singular of cara (“walker; frequenting”)

Borrowed from French caréner, from Latin carenare.

a carena (third-person singular present carenează, past participle carenat) 1st conj.

1. to careen

• IPA^(key): /kaˈɾena/ [kaˈɾe.na]
• Rhymes: -ena
• Syllabification: ca‧re‧na

Inherited from Latin carīna.

carena f (plural carenas)

1. (nautical) bottom (parts of a vessel that is always underwater)
2. (colloquial) teasing

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

carena

1. inflection of carenar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “carena”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28