lagena

From Latin lagēna (“flagon; large flask”), from Ancient Greek λάγηνος (lágēnos, “flask, pitcher”). Alternative form of λᾰ́γῡνος (lágūnos).

lagena (plural lagenas or lagenae or lagenæ)

1. (anatomy) The upper part of the cochlear duct.
2. (anatomy) A similar structure, shaped like a flask, that is a hearing organ in some vertebrates.
3. (historical) A wine-vase; an amphora.

• lagenar

• Angela, Galena, alnage, anlage, galena

• lagōna, lagaena, lagoena, laguna

Borrowed from Ancient Greek λάγηνος (lágēnos, “flask, pitcher”).

lagēna f (genitive lagēnae); first declension

1. large earthenware vessel
2. flask, flagon

First-declension noun.

• lagula
• lagella
• laguncula

• Portuguese: laje, lájea, lajem, laja
• → Arabic: لَجَانَة‎ (lajāna) (super-rare)
• → English: lagena
• → Swedish: lägel

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “lagena”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 518
• “lagena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lagena 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)
• lagena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

• galena