See also: Carina

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin carīna (keel). Doublet of careen and carene.

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Noun

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carina (plural carinas or carinae)

  1. A longitudinal ridge or projection like the keel of a boat.
  2. (botany) Part of a papilionaceous flower consisting of two petals, commonly united, which encloses the organs of fructification.
  3. (zoology) The keel of the breastbone of birds.
  4. (anatomy) Any of several features that have a projecting central ridge

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Albanian

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carina f

  1. definite nominative singular of carinë

Italian

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Adjective

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carina

  1. feminine singular of carino

References

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  1. ^ carina in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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Latin

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Etymology

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Cognate with Welsh ceri (stone of a fruit) and Ancient Greek κάρυον (káruon, nut). The earliest attested meaning is "ship's keel", though whether the original meaning was "keel" or "walnut shell" is unclear.

The further origin is disputed:[1]

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Noun

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carīna f (genitive carīnae); first declension

  1. keel or hull of a ship
  2. (figuratively) ship
  3. half of a walnut shell

Declension

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative carīna carīnae
genitive carīnae carīnārum
dative carīnae carīnīs
accusative carīnam carīnās
ablative carīnā carīnīs
vocative carīna carīnae
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References

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  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “carīna”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 93

Further reading

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  • carina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • carina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • carina in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • carina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • carina”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • carina”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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From car-ina, because customs was originally paid to the emperor.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /t͡sârina/
  • Hyphenation: ca‧ri‧na
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cȁrina f (Cyrillic spelling ца̏рина)

  1. customs

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Further reading

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  • carina”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Slovak

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Etymology

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Ultimately borrowed from Latin carīna (keel).

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carina f

  1. (zoology) The keel of the breastbone of birds.

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Further reading

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  • carina”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024