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Sense 1. A prefix in words from the Greek, denoting on, upon, upward, up to, throughout, backward, back to, again, previously, or against.
Sense 2. (Med.) An equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana, ʒij, that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces.
[The term. in the neut. pl. of Lat. nouns in -anus.] A suffix to names of persons or places, used to denote a collection of memorable sayings. Thus, Scaligerana is a book containing the sayings of Scaliger. The termination is sometimes used alone, as a noun.
It has been said that the Table-talk of Selden is worth all the ana of the Continent. Hallam.