arena

See also: Appendix:Variations of "arena"

English

A modern arena.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin arēna (“sand, arena”), from an earlier *hasēna (compare Sabine fasēna), possibly from Etruscan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɹiːnə/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːnə

Noun

arena (plural arenas or arenae or arenæ)

1. An enclosed area, often outdoor, for the presentation of sporting events (sports arena) or other spectacular events; earthen area, often oval, specifically for rodeos (North America) or circular area for bullfights (especially Hispanic America).

   A large crowd filled the seats of the arena.

2. The building housing such an area; specifically, a very large, often round building, often topped with a dome, designated for indoor sporting or other major events, such as concerts.

   The arena is grey with white beams.

3. (historical) The sand-covered centre of an amphitheatre where contests were held in Ancient Rome.

   The gladiators entered the arena.

4. A realm in which events take place; an area of interest, study, behaviour, etc.

   The company was a player in the maritime insurance arena.

   • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 4:

     But transects have also been utilised in a large variety of arenas, including surveying the contents of Amerindian earthen mounds, determining levels of anti-rabies vaccinations in village dogs, and examining ecological factors under the canopy of trees growing in agricultural areas.

   • December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time‎^[1]:

     To Musk, his vast fortune is a mere side effect of his ability not just to see but to do things others cannot, in arenas where the stakes are existential.

Derived terms

• arena football
• arenaful
• arena ice
• arenalike
• arena rock
• arenic
• descend into the arena
• Point Arena
• subarena

 

Translations

an enclosed area, often outdoor

• Albanian: arenë (sq) f
• Arabic: صَالَة f (ṣāla), حَلْبَة f (ḥalba)
• Armenian: ասպարեզ (hy) (asparez), արենա (hy) (arena)
• Belarusian: арэ́на f (aréna)
• Bulgarian: аре́на (bg) f (aréna)
• Catalan: arena (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 舞臺／舞台 (zh) (wǔtái) (also traditional Chinese variant), 阿雷納／阿雷纳 (āléinà), 競技場／竞技场 (zh) (jìngjìchǎng)

• Czech: aréna f
• Danish: arena c
• Esperanto: areno
• Estonian: areen (et)
• Finnish: areena (fi), kenttä (fi)
• French: arène (fr) f
• Galician: arena (gl) f
• Georgian: არენა (arena)
• German: Arena (de) f
• Greek: αρένα (el) f (aréna)
• Hebrew: זִירָה (he) f (zirá)
• Hindi: अखाड़ा (hi) m (akhāṛā)
• Hungarian: aréna (hu)
• Ido: areno (io)
• Irish: airéine f
• Italian: arena (it) f
• Japanese: 闘技場 (とうぎじょう, tōgijō), アリーナ (ja) (arīna), 土俵 (ja) (どひょう, dohyō) (esp. sumo)
• Khmer: សង្វៀន (km) (sɑngviən)
• Korean: 아레나 (arena), 투기장(投機場) (tugijang), 경기장(競技場) (ko) (gyeonggijang)
• Lao: ເວທີ (wē thī), ສະໜາມ (sa nām)
• Latin: harēna f, arēna f
• Latvian: arēnā f
• Lithuanian: arena (lt) f
• Macedonian: аре́на f (aréna)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: arena m

  Nynorsk: arena m

• Persian: آرنا (ârenâ), سالن (fa) (sâlon)
• Polish: arena (pl) f
• Portuguese: arena (pt) f
• Romanian: arenă (ro) f
• Russian: аре́на (ru) f (aréna)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: аре́на f

  Roman: aréna (sh) f

• Slovak: aréna f
• Slovene: arena f
• Spanish: arena (es) f, estadio (es) m, ruedo (es) m, palestra (es) f, redondel (es) m, albero (es) m, palenque (es) m, liza (es) f
• Swedish: arena (sv) c
• Thai: เวที (th) (wee-tii), สนาม (th) (sà-nǎam)
• Ukrainian: аре́на (uk) f (aréna)
• Vietnamese: sân khấu (vi), vũ đài (vi)

the building housing such an area

• Esperanto: areno
• Finnish: areena (fi)
• French: aréna (fr) f
• German: Arena (de) f
• Hungarian: aréna (hu)
• Indonesian: gelanggang (id)
• Irish: airéine f
• Portuguese: arena (pt) f
• Romanian: arenă (ro) f
• Russian: аре́на (ru) f (aréna)
• Spanish: arena (es) f

the sand-covered centre of an amphitheatre

• Albanian: arenë (sq) f
• Finnish: areena (fi)
• French: arène (fr) f
• German: Arena (de) f
• Hungarian: aréna (hu)
• Italian: arena (it) f
• Persian: آرنا (ârenâ)
• Polish: arena (pl) f
• Portuguese: arena (pt) f
• Romanian: arenă (ro) f
• Russian: аре́на (ru) f (aréna)
• Turkish: arena (tr)

a realm in which important events unfold

• Albanian: arenë (sq) f
• Catalan: arena (ca) f
• Danish: arena c
• Finnish: kenttä (fi), areena (fi), ala (fi)
• French: arène (fr) f
• German: Bühne (de) f
• Irish: saol m
• Italian: teatro (it) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: arena m

  Nynorsk: arena m

• Polish: arena (pl) f
• Portuguese: arena (pt) f
• Romanian: arenă (ro) f
• Russian: аре́на (ru) f (aréna)

Anagrams

• Aaren, Arean, Arnea, anear

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin arēna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈɾena/
• Rhymes: -ena
• Syllabification: a‧re‧na

Noun

arena f (plural arenas)

1. sand

References

• “arena”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)
• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “arena”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Asturian

Alternative forms

• areña

Etymology

From Latin arēna.

Noun

arena f (uncountable)

1. sand

   Synonym: sable

Derived terms

• reló d'arena

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin arēna.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

arena f (plural arenes)

1. sand

   Synonym: sorra

2. arena (an enclosed area for the presentation of sporting events)
3. arena (a realm in which important events unfold)

Further reading

• “arena” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “arena”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “arena” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “arena” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

From Latin arēna. Doublet of area.

Noun

arena f (plural arenas)

1. arena (an enclosed area for the presentation of sporting events)

Further reading

• “arena”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch arena, from Latin arēna (“sand, arena”), from an earlier *hasēna (compare Sabine fasēna), possibly from Etruscan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈarɛna]
• Hyphenation: arè‧na

Noun

arèna (first-person possessive arenaku, second-person possessive arenamu, third-person possessive arenanya)

1. arena:
   1. the building housing such an area; specifically, a very large, often round building, often topped with a dome, designated for indoor sporting or other major events, such as concerts.

      Synonym: gelanggang

   2. (figurative) a realm in which events take place; an area of interest, study, behaviour, etc.

Further reading

• “arena” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin arēna. Doublet of rena.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈre.na/
• Rhymes: -ena
• Hyphenation: a‧ré‧na

Noun

arena f (plural arene)

1. sand

   Synonyms: sabbia, rena

2. beach or lido

Related terms

• arenoso

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin arēna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈre.na/, (traditional) /aˈrɛ.na/
• Rhymes: -ena, (traditional) -ɛna
• Hyphenation: a‧ré‧na, (traditional) a‧rè‧na

Noun

arena f (plural arene)

1. space in a classical amphitheatre; arena
2. bullring and similar sporting spaces
3. cockpit (An enclosure for cockfights)

Further reading

• arena in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Alternative forms

• harēna

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈreː.na/, [äˈreːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈre.na/, [äˈrɛːnä]

Noun

arēna f (genitive arēnae); first declension

1. Alternative form of harēna

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	arēna	arēnae
Genitive	arēnae	arēnārum
Dative	arēnae	arēnīs
Accusative	arēnam	arēnās
Ablative	arēnā	arēnīs
Vocative	arēna	arēnae

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: arinã
  • Romanian: arină
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: rena, arena
    • → Sicilian: arena
  • Neapolitan: arena
  • Sicilian: rina
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: rene
  • Venetan: rena
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: areine, araine
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: arena
  • Occitan: arena
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: arena
  • Mirandese: arena
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: arẽa, arena
    • Galician: area
    • Portuguese: areia (see there for further descendants)
  • Spanish: arena
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: arena, rena
• Ancient borrowings:
  • → Albanian: rânë, rërë — Standard, rerë — North Tosk

Later borrowings: (unsorted)

• → Albanian: arenë
• → Basque: harea
• → Belarusian: арэна (arena)
• → Bulgarian: арена (arena)
• → Chinese: 阿雷納／阿雷纳 (ā léi nà, aa³ leoi⁴ naap⁶)
• → Czech: aréna
• → English: arena
• → French: arène
  • → Romanian: arenă
  • → Turkish: arena
• → French: aréna
• → Finnish: areena
• → German: Arena
• → Greek: αρένα (aréna)
• → Hungarian: aréna
• → Irish: airéine, airéana
• → Italian: arena
• → Japanese: アリーナ (arīna)
• → Korean: 아레나 (arena)
• → Macedonian: арена (arena)
• → Northern Sami: arena
• → Norwegian: arena
• → Persian: آرنا (ârenâ)
• → Polish: arena
• → Portuguese: arena
• → Russian: арена (arena)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: арена

  Latin script: arena

• → Swedish: arena
• → Ukrainian: арена (arena)

Mirandese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin arēna, possibly of Etruscan origin.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɐˈɾenɐ/

Noun

arena f

1. sand

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin arēna.

Noun

arena f

1. sand

Northern Sami

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈarena/

Noun

arena

1. arena

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin arena, harena.

Noun

arena m (definite singular arenaen, indefinite plural arenaer, definite plural arenaene)

1. an arena
2. a venue

References

• “arena” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin arena, harena.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑˈreːnɑ/

Noun

arena m (definite singular arenaen, indefinite plural arenaer or arenaar, definite plural arenaene or arenaane)

1. an arena
2. a venue

References

• “arena” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin arēna, from an earlier *hasēna, possibly from Etruscan. Doublet of arenal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈrɛ.na/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛna
• Syllabification: a‧re‧na

Noun

arena f

1. arena (enclosed area, often outdoor)
2. arena (sports stadium)

   Synonym: stadion

3. (historical) arena (sand-covered centre of an amphitheatre)
4. arena (realm in which important events unfold)

Declension

Declension of arena

	singular	plural
nominative	arena	areny
genitive	areny	aren
dative	arenie	arenom
accusative	arenę	areny
instrumental	areną	arenami
locative	arenie	arenach
vocative	areno	areny

Derived terms

adjective

• arenowy

 

Related terms

adjective

• arenitowy

 

noun

• arenit

 

Further reading

• arena in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• arena in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin arēna (“sand”), possibly from Etruscan *𐌇𐌀𐌔𐌄𐌍𐌀 (*hasena). See also the inherited doublet areia.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɾẽ.nɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɾẽ.nɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɾe.na/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈɾe.nɐ/

• Hyphenation: a‧re‧na

Noun

arena f (plural arenas)

1. arena

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin arena.

Noun

arena f

1. sand

Scots

Verb

arena

1. aren't

References

• Eagle, Andy, editor (2024), “arena”, in The Online Scots Dictionary‎^[3]

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /arěːna/
• Hyphenation: a‧re‧na

Noun

aréna f (Cyrillic spelling аре́на)

1. arena

Declension

Declension of arena

	singular	plural
nominative	arena	arene
genitive	arene	arena
dative	areni	arenama
accusative	arenu	arene
vocative	areno	arene
locative	areni	arenama
instrumental	arenom	arenama

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈɾena/ [aˈɾe.na]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ena
• Syllabification: a‧re‧na

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin arēna, possibly of Etruscan origin. Compare English arena.

Noun

arena f (plural arenas)

1. (geology) sand, gravel

   arena muerta ― pure sand (useless for cultivation)

   arenas movedizas ― quicksand

   chorro de arena ― sandblast

2. (building, sports) bullfight arena; boxing ring

Derived terms

• arena cinética
• arena de combate (“battle arena, fighting pit”)
• arena de miga
• arena de mina
• arena de moldeo
• arenal
• arenar
• arenas movedizas
• arenero
• arenilla
• arenisca
• banco de arena
• baño de arena
• dólar de arena
• edificar sobre arena
• enarenar
• granito de arena
• grano de arena
• hacer una montaña de un grano de arena
• reloj de arena
• sembrar en arena
• tormenta de arena
• una de cal y otra de arena

 

Related terms

• arenoso

 

Etymology 2

Verb

arena

1. inflection of arenar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “arena”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Noun

arena c

1. arena

Declension

Declension of arena

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	arena	arenas
	definite	arenan	arenans
plural	indefinite	arenor	arenors
	definite	arenorna	arenornas

Anagrams

• arean