Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Coena

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

COE'NA (δεῖπνον). The principal daily meal of the Romans; and, consequently, better translated by our word dinner than supper, which is more commonly applied. It was the third meal taken in the day, i. e. after the breakfast (jentaculum) and the luncheon (prandium or merenda), the most usual hour being about three P.M. of our time; though the particular habits of different individuals might induce some to dine at an earlier, and others at a later hour. Plaut. Cic. Petr. Suet., &c.

2. Prima, altera, tertia coena. The first, second, or third remove of dishes, or courses at a dinner. Mart. Ep. xi. 31.