tsaritsa

English

Alternative forms

• czaritsa
• czaritza
• tzaritza

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian цари́ца (caríca).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(t)sɑːˈɹɪtsə/, /zɑːˈɹɪtsə/

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Noun

tsaritsa (plural tsaritsas or tsaritsy)

1. a tsarina
   • 2003, Isolde Thyrêt, “Women and the Orthodox Faith in Muscovite Russia: Spiritual Experience and Practice”, in Valerie Ann Kivelson, Robert H. Greene, editors, Orthodox Russia: Belief and Practice Under the Tsars, The Pennsylvania State University Press, →ISBN, part III (Encountering the Sacred), page 165:

     By engaging in public pilgrimages to the shrines of these saints, the tsaritsy were acting as symbolic extensions of their royal husbands through their exercise of charity and justice along the pilgrimage path.

   • 2012, Barbara Evans Clements, A History of Women in Russia: From Earliest Times to the Present, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 37:

     Portraying the tsaritsy as exemplars of Muscovite femininity and consorts of powerful tsars did not increase the powers granted them by custom.

   • 2017, Nancy Shields Kollmann, The Russian Empire 1450–1801, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 135:

     On the one hand, the tsar’s wife (tsaritsa), sisters, and daughters (tsarevny) were players in court politics—tsaritsy were behind-the-scenes marriage brokers; they could represent their fathers’ and brothers’ interests; […]

Translations

tsarina — see tsarina

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Russian цари́ца (caríca).

Noun

tsaritsa m (definite singular tsaritsaen, indefinite plural tsaritsaer, definite plural tsaritsaene)

1. tsarina

   Synonym: tsarina

References

• “tsaritsa” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Russian цари́ца (caríca).

Noun

tsaritsa f (definite singular tsaritsaa, indefinite plural tsaritsaer, definite plural tsaritsaene)

1. tsarina

   Synonym: tsarina

References

• “tsaritsa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

tsaritsa

1. tsarina (empress of several Eastern European countries, especially Russia, or the wife of a tsar)

   Synonym: tsarinna

Further reading

• tsaritsa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)