regina

See also: Regina, regină, reġina, Regína, and Regīna

Interlingua

Noun

regina (plural reginas)

  1. queen

Italian

Etymology

From Latin rēgīna; compare Spanish reina.

Noun

regina f (plural regine, masculine re)

  1. queen (monarch)
  2. queen (male homosexual)
  3. (chess, card games) queen

See also
Chess pieces in Italian · pezzi degli scacchi (layout · text)
re regina,
donna		 torre alfiere cavallo pedone
Playing cards in Italian · carte da gioco (layout · text)
asso due tre quattro cinque sei sette
otto nove dieci fante donna,
regina		 re jolly, joker,
matta

Anagrams

Latin
Gisela dē Bavāria, Rēgīna Hungariae (Giselle of Bavaria, Queen of Hungary)

Etymology

From the inflected stem of rēx (“king”). Compare Sanskrit राज्ञी (rā́jñī, “queen, princess”).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /reːˈɡiː.na/
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /reˈd͡ʒi.na/, [reˈd͡ʒiː.na]
  • Audio (Classical)(file)

Noun

rēgīna f (genitive rēgīnae); first declension

  1. queen
  2. princess
  3. (Later Latin, chess) queen

Declension

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative rēgīna rēgīnae
Genitive rēgīnae rēgīnārum
Dative rēgīnae rēgīnīs
Accusative rēgīnam rēgīnās
Ablative rēgīnā rēgīnīs
Vocative rēgīna rēgīnae

Coordinate terms

Derived terms
  • rēgificus
  • regifugium
  • rēgillus
  • regimen
  • regimentum

Descendants

See also
Chess pieces in Latin · latrunculi, milites scaccorum (layout · text)
rex regina turris episcopus eques pedes

References
  • regina in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • regina in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • regina in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • regina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • regina in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • regina in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Romanian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [reˈd͡ʒi.na]

Noun

regina f

  1. definite nominative and accusative singular of regină
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