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Probably borrowed from Sabine, from Proto-Italic *stregsno-, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *streg-sno-, from *(s)treg-, *(s)terg- (“to be stiff, rigid, strong”), and cognate with Old Irish trén (“strong”), Icelandic þrek (“strength”).[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈstreː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈstrɛː.na]

strēna f (genitive strēnae); first declension

1. an auspicious sign, a (favorable) omen
   • c. 200 BCE, Plautus, Stichus 5.2.23–24:
     SANG Sequor, et domum redeunti principium placet. bona scaeva strenaque obviam occessit mihi.
     Sangarinus: "Yes, I’m following you, and I like the start of our return home. A good omen and favorable sign have come my way."
2. New Year's gift

First-declension noun.

• īnstrēnuus

• Strēnia

• strēnuitās

• strēnuōsus

• strēnuus

• Catalan: estrena

• Italian: strenna

• Ladino: estrena

• Old French: estreine

  • French: étrenne

• Old Galician-Portuguese: *estrẽa

  • Galician: estrea
  • Portuguese: estreia

• Sicilian: strina

• Spanish: estrena, estreno

• “strena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• "strena", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

• “strena”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 591

From English strainer.

strena

1. coffee or tea strainer