regio

See also: régio, régió, and regió

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin regiō. Doublet of region.

Noun

regio (plural regiones)

1. (astronomy, geology, planetary geology) Any large area of a planet or moon that is strongly differentiated from neighbouring areas by colour or albedo.
2. (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

large area of a planet or moon strongly differentiated by colour or albedo

• Russian: о́бласть (ru) f (óblastʹ)

Anagrams

• Ogier, orgie

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin regio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈreː.ɣi.oː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: re‧gio
• Rhymes: -eːɣioː

Noun

regio f (plural regio's or regionen, diminutive regiootje n)

1. 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^(key): /reˈɡi.o/, [reˈɡi.o]

Noun

régio (plural regio-regio)

1. (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^(key): /ˈrɛ.d͡ʒo/
• Rhymes: -ɛdʒo
• Hyphenation: rè‧gio

Adjective

regio (feminine regia, masculine plural regi, feminine plural regie)

1. (uncommon or literary) royal

   Synonyms: reale, regale

2. (figurative) grand, excellent

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• erigo, orgie, orige

Latin

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From regō +‎ -iō.

Noun

regiō f (genitive regiōnis); third declension

1. direction, line
2. boundary line, boundary
3. region, district, province
4. ground
5. (figuratively) sphere, department
6. opposite, on the other side (e + regione + genitive or dative)
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.25:

     e regione turris

     opposite the turret

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	regiō	regiōnēs
genitive	regiōnis	regiōnum
dative	regiōnī	regiōnibus
accusative	regiōnem	regiōnēs
ablative	regiōne	regiōnibus
vocative	regiō	regiōnēs

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^[1], 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^[2], 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

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of rēgius

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin rēgius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrexjo/ [ˈre.xjo]
• Rhymes: -exjo
• Syllabification: re‧gio

Adverb

regio

1. (Panama, Andes, Cono Sur) excellently

Adjective

regio (feminine regia, masculine plural regios, feminine plural regias)

1. royal, regal

   Synonym: real

2. (Nicaragua, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Cono Sur) stupendous

   Synonyms: bacán, bárbaro, chévere, estupendo, excelente, guay

3. (Mexico) Monterreyan, born in Monterrey, clipping of regiomontano

   Synonym: regiomontano

4. (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