regina
Italian
Noun
regina f (plural regine, masculine re)
- queen (monarch)
- queen (male homosexual)
- (chess, card games) queen
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Latin
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)
Declension
First declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | rēgīna | rēgīnae |
Genitive | rēgīnae | rēgīnārum |
Dative | rēgīnae | rēgīnīs |
Accusative | rēgīnam | rēgīnās |
Ablative | rēgīnā | rēgīnīs |
Vocative | rēgīna | rēgīnae |
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See also
Chess pieces in Latin · latrunculi, milites scaccorum (layout · text) | |||||
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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]
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