ana- in Portuguese

ana- in Portuguese

What does "ana-" mean?

1. noun A collection of things associated with a person or place, especially a personal collection of anecdotes or conversations at table
   "The FRENCH ANAS, or Selections from the best of the French Anas, interspersed with biographical sketches. In three elegant Volumes, small 8vo. price 15s. boards"
2. adv Of each; an equal quantity.
   "wine and honey, ana / ij"
3. noun Anorexia.
4. adv In a direction analogous to up, but along the additional axis added by the fourth dimension.
   "Your right half would move ana, let us say, and your left half would move kata. The two halves would, in their parallel spaces, move past the plane of rotation, and then they would swing back into our space."

ana- in a sentence

• The FRENCH ANAS, or Selections from the best of the French Anas, interspersed with biographical sketches. In three elegant Volumes, small 8vo. price 15s. boards
• Jefferson was aware of the literary tradition of anas, which extended back at least as far as Athenaeus's Dipnosophistarum, a delightful collection of table talk from ancient times covering a variety of subjects including law, literature, medicine, and philosophy.
• wine and honey, ana / ij
• Your right half would move ana, let us say, and your left half would move kata. The two halves would, in their parallel spaces, move past the plane of rotation, and then they would swing back into our space.

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