Meaning of retina | Babel Free

Definitions

1. rein (strap or rope attached to a bridle or bit, used to control an animal)
   Early, Medieval-Latin, declension-1, feminine
2. the retina of an eye
   Early, Medieval-Latin, declension-1
3. medieval spelling of rēsīna (“resin”)
   Early, Medieval-Latin, alt-of, declension-1, obsolete
4. a town in Campania near Herculaneum
   declension-1, feminine, singular

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Examples

“Apprehensaque equi Retina, celeriter eum Beneventum ducebat”

Having seized the horse's rein(s), he quickly rode it to Benevento.

“Et dicit Avicenna quarto de Animalibus, quod retina ducit nutrimentum secundum veritatem ad partes oculi”

And Avicenna says in his fourth book on Animals that the retina actually takes nutrients to the parts of the eye

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