Noun: gena
Gender: f
Hyphenation: gè‧na
| Singular f | gena |
| Plural f | gene |
Sample Sentences
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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.) [1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XXXI, page 556, lines 61–63:]
Nouns inflected like gena
monferrina,
ossichinolina,
palestra,
nipoteria,
gualdrappa,
bacinella,
minicassetta,
bestemmia,
geostoria,
sferra,
sferza,
sfilza,
triplofonia,
fiduciaria,
meteoroscopia,
ipersonnia,
sovrabbondanza,
corbezzola,
pseudoestesia,
viminata, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin gena (“cheek”). See: Latin Nouns '
gena'.
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