reginaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• (queen): regina

語源

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.

発音

• IPA: /ɹɪˈd͡ʒiːnə/, /ɹɪˈd͡ʒaɪ.nə/
• 韻: -iːnə, -aɪnə

固有名詞

Regina

1. (formal, usually italicized) The reigning queen.
   • 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:

     Your Good FRIEND, / ANNE Regina. / SUNDERLAND.

   • 1908, Louis Batiffol, Marie de Médicis and the French Court in the XVIIth Century, London: Chatto & Windus, page 99:

     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.

   • 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”:

     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.

   • 2018, Lucy Worsley, Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN:

     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.

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.
   • 1996, Martha Grimes, Hotel Paradise, Headline, →ISBN, page 5:

     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.

同意語

• (queen regnant): R. (abbreviation)
• (Saskatchewan): Pile of Bones (former name)

等位語

• (present queen): Rex (king regnant), Imperatrix (empress)
• (given name): Rex (male given name)

派生語

• Reginan

関連する語

Further reading

• Regina, Saskatchewan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Definition of Regina: from Webster's Rosetta Edition, includes translations.

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