Ina

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ina"

English

Etymology

Short form of given names ending in -ina, e.g. Georgina, Christina, Wilhelmina.

Proper noun

Ina

1. A female given name from Latin.
   • 1935, Winthrop Ames, What Shall We Name the Baby?, New York: Simon and Schuster, page 18:

     Miss Ina Claire tells me that half her acquaintances call her "Eenah" and the other half "Eynah". She answers docilely to either.

   • 1995, Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh, →ISBN, page 139:

     The eldest, originally called Christina in spite of her Jewish father's protests, eventually had her name sliced in half. "Stop sulking, Abe," Aurora commanded. "From now on she's plain Ina without the Christ." So poor Ina grew up with only half a handle, and when the second child was born a year later matters were made worse because this time Aurora insisted on "Inamorata". Abraham protested again: "People will confuse," he said plaintively. "And this Ina-more it is like saying she is Ina-plus."

Translations

female given name

• Danish: Ina
• Finnish: Iina (fi)
• Latvian: Ina f
• Lithuanian: Ina f
• Norwegian: Ine, Ina
• Swedish: Ina

Anagrams

• Ian, nai, AIN, Nia, Ani, Ain, NIA, ani, ain', ANI, -ian, nia, ain

Danish

Etymology

Short form of Wilhelmina and similar names.

Proper noun

Ina

1. a female given name

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.naː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: Ina

Proper noun

Ina f

1. a female given name

Faroese

Etymology

Short form of names ending with -ina, such as Carlina, Elina, etc.

Proper noun

Ina f

1. a female given name

Usage notes

Matronymics

• son of Ina: Inuson
• daughter of Ina: Inudóttir

Declension

	singular
	indefinite
nominative	Ina
accusative	Inu
dative	Inu
genitive	Inu

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἴνα (Ína).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈi.na/, [ˈɪnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.na/, [ˈiːnä]

Proper noun

Ina f sg (genitive Inae); first declension

1. An inland town in the south of Sicily mentioned by Ptolemy

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Ina
genitive	Inae
dative	Inae
accusative	Inam
ablative	Inā
vocative	Ina
locative	Inae

Derived terms

• Inensis

References

• “Ina”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Latvian

Etymology

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1894. From names ending in -ina, and from Inese.

Proper noun

Ina f

1. a female given name

References

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
• [1] Population Register of Latvia: Ina was the only given name of 2735 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

Lithuanian

Etymology

From names ending in -ina, such as Katarina and Regina, and from Ineza.

Proper noun

Ina f

1. a female given name

Norwegian

Etymology

Short form of names ending in -ina, such as Karolina, Katarina, Nikolina.

Proper noun

Ina

1. a female given name.Variant: Ine

Polish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: I‧na
• Homophone: -ina

Proper noun

Ina f

1. Ina (a river in northwest Poland)

Declension

Declension of Ina

	singular
nominative	Ina
genitive	Iny
dative	Inie
accusative	Inę
instrumental	Iną
locative	Inie
vocative	Ino

Further reading

• Ina in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Etymology

Short form of names ending in -ina, such as Sabina, Severina, and of Inez. First recorded in Sweden in 1836.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Ina c (genitive Inas)

1. a female given name

Anagrams

• nia