Regina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈd͡ʒiːnə/
ipa: /ɹɪˈd͡ʒaɪ.nə/
rhymes: -iːnə
rhymes: -aɪnə
Forms: form: regina
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.
Senses: examples: text: Your Good FRIEND, / ANNE Regina. / SUNDERLAND.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 1908, Louis Batiffol, Marie de Médicis and the French Court in the XVIIth Century, London: Chatto & Windus, page 99:
text: 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.
ref: 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”:
text: 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.
ref: 2018, Lucy Worsley, Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN:
qualifier: usually italicized
glosses: The reigning queen.
glosses: The capital city of Saskatchewan, Canada, with a metropolitan population of about 250,000.
glosses: A neighborhood in the community of Nokomis, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Sandoval County, New Mexico, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Lancaster County and Northumberland County, Virginia, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in the town of Almon, Shawano County, Wisconsin, United States.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1996, Martha Grimes, Hotel Paradise, Headline, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
Synonyms: sense: queen regnant
word: R.
sense: Saskatchewan
english: former name
translation: former name
word: Pile of Bones
Coordinate terms: sense: present queen
english: king regnant
translation: king regnant
word: Rex
sense: present queen
alt: empress
word: Imperatrix
sense: given name
english: male given name
translation: male given name
word: Rex
Derived terms: Reginan
Related terms: reginacide
reginal
Salve Regina
vicereine