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Regina en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • /ɹɪˈd͡ʒiːnə/ given name
  • /ɹɪˈd͡ʒaɪ.nə/
  • /ɹɪˈd͡ʒiːnə/
  • /ɹɪˈd͡ʒaɪ.nə/ (Canadian)
  • (Canada) audio

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rēgīna (“queen”). The given name originally referred to the Virgin Mary as the Queen of Heaven. The Canadian city was named for Queen Victoria, as suggested by Princess Louise. Doublet of rani.

Meanings

  1. (formal, qualifier:usually italicized) The reigning queen.
    • After work, she [Queen Victoria] would roll in her wheelchair along the smooth paths between the cypresses, palms and urns overflowing with flowers that crammed the Regina’s paradisical garden. 2018, Lucy Worsley, Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN:
    • Jesus is the new Adam, and Mary as the Queen of Heaven is His spouse and the perfection of Eve. / Perhaps the most explicit example of this felix culpa is displayed in the van Eyck Ghent Altarpiece. The artist used the same model for the shockingly nude Eve and for the Virgin Annunciate and her elevation to the heavens as the Regina, married to her own resurrected Son. Similarly, the model whom he used for Adam reappears in the inner presentation of the Altarpiece as Jesus in the role of the Regina’s Spouse. 2013, Carl A. P. Ruck, Mark A. Hoffman, “Semen from the Heavens”, in Entheogens, Myth, & Human Consciousness, Berkeley, Calif.: Ronin Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, section “Forces of Light and Darkness”:
    • The conveying of the Duc de Nevers and a Capuchin father to Civita Vecchia in 1608, was, indeed the Regina’s [Marie de’ Medici’s] sole real commission. 1908, Louis Batiffol, Marie de Médicis and the French Court in the XVIIth Century, London: Chatto & Windus, page 99:
    • Your Good FRIEND, / ANNE Regina. / SUNDERLAND. 1707, Anne Regina, “A Letter from Her Majesty the QUEEN of Great Britain, to the Governour and Counsellors of State, of the Sovereignty of Neufchatel and Vallangin”, in The Present State of Europe: or, the Historical and Political Monthly Mercury, […], volume XVIII, number 10, London: […] Henry Rhodes […]; […] Eliz. Harris, page 445:
  2. The capital city of Saskatchewan, Canada, with a metropolitan population of about 250,000.
  3. A neighborhood in the community of Nokomis, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
  4. An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Missouri, United States.
  5. A census-designated place in Sandoval County, New Mexico, United States.
  6. An unincorporated community in Lancaster County and Northumberland County, Virginia, United States.
  7. An unincorporated community in the town of Almon, Shawano County, Wisconsin, United States.
  8. A female given name from Latin.
    • Of course, her name isn't really 'Ree-Jane'; it's Regina Jane Davidow. I have always thought the name itself rather wonderful and am only sorry it belongs to her. 1996, Martha Grimes, Hotel Paradise, Headline, →ISBN, page 5:

Forms

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regina alternative lexicographic

Coordinates

Gina · Imperatrix (present queen) · Rex (given name) · Rex (present queen)

Deriveds

Reginan

Relateds

reginal · vicereine · reginacide · Salve Regina

Synonyms

Pile of Bones (Saskatchewan) · R. (queen regnant)

Translations (28)

ru Реги́на (female given name) · cr Oskana-ka-asateki (capital of Saskatchewan) · de Regine (female given name) · lv Regīna (female given name) · ar مَلِكَة (female given name) · et Regina (female given name) · mr रेजिना (capital of Saskatchewan) · bg Риджа́йна (capital of Saskatchewan) · ko 레지나 (female given name) · pt Regina (female given name) · cs Regína (female given name) · fr Régine (female given name) · mr रेजिना (female given name) · da Regine (female given name) · kl Riikki (female given name) · nn Regine (female given name) · ja レジーナ (female given name) · bg Реги́на (female given name) · pl Regina (female given name) · de Regina (female given name) · es Reina (female given name) · cs Regina (female given name) · fr Reine (female given name) · sv Regina (female given name) · fi Regina (female given name) · nb Regine (female given name) · pl Regina (capital of Saskatchewan) · ko 리자이나 (capital of Saskatchewan)