antenna
English
/ænˈtɛn.ə/
noun
Definitions
- A feeler organ on the head of an insect, crab, or other animal.
- An apparatus to receive or transmit electromagnetic waves and convert respectively to or from an electrical signal.
- The faculty of intuitive astuteness.
- (biochemistry) A fragment of an oligosaccharide
- (nautical) The spar to which a lateen sail is attached, which is then hoisted up the mast.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin antemna, antenna (pole, sailyard, yard).
Origin
Latin
antemna, antenna
Gloss
pole, sailyard, yard
Concept
Semantic Field
The house
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
🎣 💈
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Antennagate English
- antennaed English
- antennal English
- antennaless English
- antennalike English
- antennally English
- antennate English
- antennation English
- antennectomy English
- antenniferous English
- antennogram English
- antennular English
- antennule English
- circumantennal English
- electroantennogram English
- interantennal English
- multiantenna English
- nanoantenna English
- photoantenna English
- postantennal English
- subantennal English
- antemna, antenna Latin
- アンテナ Japanese
- パラボラアンテナ Japanese
- 안테나 Korean