Ana

ā′na, a suffix to names of persons or places, denoting a collection of memorable sayings, items of go ip, or miscellaneous facts, as Johnson i an a , Tun brig i an a , .: applied also to the literature of some special subject, as Boxiana , Burns i an a , Shake spear i an a .— n.pl. specially a collection of the table-talk of some one. [The neut. pl. termination of L. adjectives in -anus = pertaining to.]