harena.
sand, grains of sand; sandy land or desert; seashore; arena, place of contest;
Meaning & usage
sand
slime; mud
29, Virgil, Georgica, book IV, ed. by John E. Sheridan, London: Machen, published 1856, page 71, lines 287–294, notes from page 218: Nam qua Pellaei gens fortunata Canopi/ Accolit effuso stagnantem flumine Nilum/ Et circum pictis vehitur sua rura phaselis,/ Quaque pharetratae vicinia Persidis urget,/ [Et viridem Aegyptum nigrá fecundat arená,/ Et diversa ruens septem discurrit in ora/ Usque coloratis amnis devexus ab Indis,]/ Omnis in hac certam regio jacit arte salutem. For where the fortunate people of the Pellaean Canopus dwell close by the Nile, that swells into a lake with its inundating stream, and are carried round their farms in painted barges; and where the vicinity of the quiver-armed Parthia is contiguous, and the river rolling down all the way from the swarthy Indians separates, as it rushes along, into seven different branches, and fertilizes the verdant Egypt with its black slime; the entire region places implicit confidence in this art.
the sand; sands; a sandy place: sandy desert or wastes
the sand; sands; a sandy place: beach; strand; coastland (at the seashore)
the sand; sands; a sandy place: the place of combat in the amphitheatre (strewn with sand): the arena
the sand; sands; a sandy place: combat in the amphitheatre
the sand; sands; a sandy place: the combatants in the arena
the sand; sands; a sandy place: the arena (the realm in which a dispute unfolds)
Where this word comes from
From Old Latin hasēna, possibly from Etruscan; compare Sabine fasēna, Etruscan 𐌚𐌀𐌑𐌄𐌍𐌀 (faśena, “sand; ashes; human remains”). Otherwise, as De Vaan suggests, it might be from a verb suffixed with *-es-no-, but none fits and so the etymology is unknown.
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