crena

From Latin crēna.

crena (plural crenae)

1. (sciences) A furrow or notch.

• recan, Crane, caren, Crean, Caren, rance, Carne, ancré, Rance, nacre, Nérac, crane, nacré, Cerna, caner

Perhaps from the Proto-Indo-European roots *(s)ker- (“to cut off”) or *krey- (“to separate”). Spuriously attested in Pliny.

crēna f (genitive crēnae); first declension

1. incision, notch

   Synonyms: incīsiō, incīsūra

First-declension noun.

• crēnātus

• “crena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• crena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.