Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Catena \Ca*te"na\, n.; pl. {Catene}. [L., a chain.]
   A chain or series of things connected with each other.

         I have . . . in no case sought to construct those
         caten[ae] of games, which it seems now the fashion of
         commentators to link together.           --C. J.
                                                  Ellicott.