The corpus record — Latin

benna

benna · f

a kind of carriage

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What it meant

1. benna — Lewis & Short

benna, ae, f. (Gallic),

I a kind of carriage; those who sat in the same benna were called combennones, Fest. p. 27; cf. Comment. p. 347 (a wagon of wicker or basket-work is still called banne in Belgium, and benne in Switzerland).

2. benna — Walde–Hofmann

benna, -ae f. „Art zweiräderiger Wagen mit geflochtenem Korb*, combennónés „in eadem benna sedentes" (Paul. Fest. 32): gall. Wort, vgl kymr. benn „Fuhrwerk“ (*bhend-nä : gr. md9vr, qdtvn „Krippe“ aus *bhndh-nà, s. Lidén BB. 21, 110, Solmsen KZ. 42, 219° und unter offendimentum); daraus aengl. binn (Kluge Pauls Grdr. I? 929) und durch roman. Vermittlung nhd. dial. benne „Wagenkasten*, nndl ben ,Korb*, ,Mulde*. Vgl. … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. benna, p. 133]

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