gena

Borrowed from Latin gena (“cheek”).

gena

1. (zoology) The cheek; the feathered side of the under mandible of a bird.
2. (zoology) The part of the head to which the jaws of an insect are attached.

• Ange, Egan, Gean, agen, gean, nega-

Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénu-, *ǵénus. Compare Welsh gen, Old Irish gin, giun, Latin gena.

• IPA^(key): /ɡenaː/

genā f

1. cheek

From Latin gena (“cheek”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛ.na/, [ˈd͡ʒɛːn̺ä]
• Rhymes: -ɛna
• Stress: gèna
• Hyphenation: ge‧na

gena f (plural gene) (obsolete, literary)

1. cheek
   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XXXI, lines 61–63, page 556:

     Diffuso era per li occhi e per le gene ¶ di benigna letizia, in atto pio ¶ quale a tenero padre si conviene.

     O'erflowing was he in his eyes and cheeks with joy benign, in attitude of pity as to a tender father is becoming.

   Synonym: guancia

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵénu-, *ǵénus (“chin, jaw, cheek”). Cognates include Ancient Greek γένυς (génus), Sanskrit हनु (hánu), Persian چانه‎ (čâne), Tocharian A śanwem, Old Armenian ծնաւտ (cnawt), Lithuanian žandas, Welsh gen, and Old English ċinn (English chin).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡe.na/, [ˈɡɛ.na]

gena f (genitive genae); first declension

1. cheek
2. eye socket
3. (rare) eye or eyelid

First declension.

• (cheek): bucca

• Aromanian: dzeanã
• Romanian: geană

• gena in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gena in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• gena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

• genene (neuter and masculine)

gena n or m

1. definite neuter plural of gen

• genane

gena n or m

1. definite neuter plural of gen

-géna

1. to enter, to go into [+locative]

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

gena

1. to take a short cut

• genväg