# regio
## English
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin regiō. Doublet of region.

### Noun

regio (plural regiones)
* (astronomy, geology, planetary geology) Any large area of a planet or moon that is strongly differentiated from neighbouring areas by colour or albedo.
* (Ancient Rome) A district of a city.
** 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 27:The British School has unearthed a city of continuous houses, more than 400 feet long by 350 broad, whose many blocks or "insul[ae]" might seem almost to need the more elaborate grouping of the "regiones" of Pompeii.

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Ogier, orgie

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin regio.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈreː.ɣi.oː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: re‧gio
* Rhymes: -eːɣioː

### Noun

regio f (plural regio's or regionen, diminutive regiootje n)
* region
    Synonym: gebied

#### Derived terms

* euregio
* woonregio

#### Related terms

* regionaal

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: regio

### Anagrams

* groei

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Either directly borrowed or through Dutch regio, from Latin regio. Doublet of region.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /reˈɡi.o/, [reˈɡi.o]

### Noun

régio (plural regio-regio)
* (anatomy, technical) region a place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
    Synonym: daerah
    regio abdomen ― abdominal region

#### Related terms

* region
* regional

### Further reading

* “regio” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin rēgius.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrɛ.d͡ʒo/
* Rhymes: -ɛdʒo
* Hyphenation: rè‧gio

### Adjective

regio (feminine regia, masculine plural regi, feminine plural regie)
* (uncommon or literary) royal
    Synonyms: reale, regale
* (figurative) grand, excellent

### Further reading

* regio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* erigo, orgie, orige

## Latin
### Etymology 1

From regō +‎ -iō.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈre.ɡi.oː/, [ˈrɛɡioː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈre.d͡ʒi.o/, [ˈrɛːd͡ʒio]

### Noun

regiō f (genitive regiōnis); third declension
* direction, line
* boundary line, boundary
* region, district, province
* ground
* (figuratively) sphere, department
* opposite, on the other side (e + regione + genitive or dative)
** c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.25:e regione turrisopposite the turret

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* cuius regiō, eius religiō
* ē regiōne
* regiōnālis
* regiōnāliter
* regiōnātim

#### Descendants

* Italian: rione
* Old French: royon, reiun, rëon
* Old Occitan: reion
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Ladin: raion
* Sicilian: rijuni (obsolete)
* Venetan: rejon
Borrowings
* → Albanian: rajon
* → Aragonese: rechión
* → Asturian: rexón
* → Belarusian: рэгіён (rehijón)
* → Bulgarian: регион (region)
* → Catalan: regió
* → Corsican: regione
* → Danish: region
* → Dutch: regio
* → English: regio
* → Extremaduran: rehión
* → Friulian: regjon
* → Galician: rexión
* → Georgian: რეგიონი (regioni)
* → German: Region
** → Hunsrik: Rëghion
** → Polish: region
* → Italian: regione
* → Kyrgyz: регион (region)
* → Latvian: reģions
* → Lithuanian: regionas
* → Luxembourgish: Regioun
* → Macedonian: регион (region)
* → Mirandese: region
* → Norwegian: region
* → Occitan: region
* → Old French: regiun, region, regioun, regïun (diaereses not universally used by scholars of Old French)
** Middle French: region
*** French: région
**** → Romanian: regiune
** → Middle English: regioun, region, regyoun, regyown, regyoyn, regyun, regyon, regyone, regeowne
*** English: region
*** Scots: region
* → Portuguese: região
* → Russian: регион (region)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: регѝо̄н, ре̑гија (Croatia)
    Latin script: regìōn, rȇgija (Croatia)
* → Sicilian: riggioni, riggiuni
* → Slovene: regija
* → Spanish: región
** → Tagalog: rehiyon
* → Swedish: region
* → Ukrainian: регіон (rehion)

### References

* “regio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “regio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "regio", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* regio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. an inland region; the interior: terra (regio) mediterranea in a straight line: recta (regione, via); in directum geography: terrarum or regionum descriptio (geographia) geographical knowledge: regionum terrestrium aut maritimarum scientia to entertain, regale a person: accipere aliquem (bene, copiose, laute, eleganter, regio apparatu, apparatis epulis) to reconnoitre the ground: loca, regiones, loci naturam explorare
* “regio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* regio in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
* “regio”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
* “regio”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
* Dizionario Latino-Italiano Olivetti Media

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

rēgiō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of rēgius

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin rēgius.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrexjo/ [ˈre.xjo]
* Rhymes: -exjo
* Syllabification: re‧gio

### Adverb

regio
* (Panama, Andes, Cono Sur) excellently

### Adjective

regio (feminine regia, masculine plural regios, feminine plural regias)
* royal, regal
    Synonym: real
* (Nicaragua, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Cono Sur) stupendous
    Synonyms: bacán, bárbaro, chévere, estupendo, excelente, guay
* (Mexico) Monterreyan, born in Monterrey, clipping of regiomontano
    Synonym: regiomontano
* (Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Andes, Cono Sur) stunning; gorgeous

#### Derived terms

* agua regia

#### Related terms

* real
* reino
* rey

### Further reading

* “regio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10