Ana

Formed from the Latin suffix -ana; compare ism (from -ism), itis (from -itis), phobia (from -phobia).

Full definition of ana

(plural anas)

A collection of things associated with a person or place, especially a personal collection of anecdotes or conversations at table

1803, publisher's advertisement in Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Robinson, Page 8The FRENCH ANAS, or Selections from the best of the French Anas, interspersed with biographical sketches. In three elegant Volumes, small 8vo. price 15s. boards
1903, Thomas Jefferon, Franklin B. Sawvel (editor), The complete anas of Thomas Jefferson, Round Table Press, New York
2008, Kevin J. Hayes, The road to Monticello: The life and mind of Thomas Jefferson,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.

From Greek á¼€Î½Î¬ (anÃ¡), of each.

(in prescriptions) Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or contracted to aa),
ij. (that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces).

(uncountable)

Ancient Greek; see ana-.

In a direction analogous to up, but along the additional axis added by the fourth dimension.

1985, Rudy von Bitter Rucker, The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes (page 43)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.
2005, Animation journal (volumes 13-15)Added to the conventional FPS control keys are two extra keys that move the player in ana and kata direction in 4d space. If you go in this extra direction the space around you changes, the room transforms.