harena

• arēna

From an earlier *hasēna (compare Sabine fasēna), possibly from Etruscan.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /haˈreː.na/

harēna f (genitive harēnae); first declension

1. sand
2. (poetically) slime, mud, līmus
   • 29, Virgil, Georgica, book IV, ed. by John E. Sheridan, London: Machen, published 1856, page 71, lines 287–294, notes from page 218:

     Nam qua Pellaei gens fortunata Canopi/ Accolit effuso staguantem flumine Nilum/ Et circum pictis vehitur sua rura phaselis,/ Quaque pharetratae vicinia Persidis urget,/ [Et viridem Aegyptum nigrá fecundat arená,/ Et diversa ruens septem discurrit in ora/ Usque coloratis amnis devexus ab Indis,]/ Omnis in hac certam regio jacit arte salutem.

     For where the fortunate people of the Pellaean Canopus dwell close by the Nile, that swells into a lake with its inundating stream, and are carried round their farms in painted barges; and where the vicinity of the quiver-armed Parthia is contiguous, and the river rolling down all the way from the swarthy Indians separates, as it rushes along, into seven different branches, and fertilizes the verdant Egypt with its black slime; the entire region places implicit confidence in this art.

3. (metonymically) sand, sands, a sandy place, especially—
   1. a sandy desert, waste
   2. the shore of the sea, the beach, coast, strand
   3. the place of combat (strewn with sand) in the amphitheatre, the arena
   4. (transferred) a combat in the amphitheatre; the combatants in the arena
   5. volcanic fire, lava.
4. (figuratively) the place of combat, scene or theatre of any contest (war, a single battle, a dispute, etc.)

First declension.

• sabulum, glārea, saburra

• harena in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• harena in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• harena in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• harena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• harena in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers