-ina

Translingual

Suffix

-ina

1. (taxonomy) Used to form names of subtribes of animals
2. (taxonomy) Used to form names of suborders of animals
3. (taxonomy) Used to form names of taxa subordinate to the higher rank from which they are derived
4. (taxonomy) Used to form names of genera from other genera indicating a smaller size of organism

Derived terms

• See Category:Translingual terms suffixed with -ina

Asturian

Suffix

-ina f

1. -y (forming diminutives of feminine nouns)

Related terms

• -ín

Catalan

Etymology 1

Suffix

-ina f

1. feminine singular of -í

Suffix

-ina f (noun-forming suffix, plural -ines)

1. forms diminutives

   ‎joc m (“game”) + ‎-ina → ‎joguina f (“toy”)

   ‎mantell m (“cloak”) + ‎-ina → ‎mantellina f (“mantilla”)

2. forms names of plants, animals, tools, and other nouns related to a base noun or verb

   ‎taronja (“orange”) + ‎-ina → ‎taronjina (“orange blossom”)

   ‎sang (“blood”) + ‎-ina → ‎sanguina (“blood orange”)

   ‎moltó (“wether (castrated ram)”) + ‎-ina → ‎moltonina (“sheepskin”)

   ‎escopir (“to spit”) + ‎-ina → ‎escopina (“spit, saliva”)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Suffix

-ina f (noun-forming suffix, plural -ines)

1. -ine (used to form names of chemical substances)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “-ina”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “-ina” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *-ina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ɪna

Suffix

-ina f (noun-forming suffix)

1. noun forming suffix

   ‎pustý + ‎-ina → ‎pustina

   ‎list + ‎-ina → ‎listina

   ‎kráva + ‎-ina → ‎kravina

Derived terms

Further reading

• Substantiva tvořená příponou -ina, Naše řeč (1938)
• -ina in Slovník afixů užívaných v češtině, 2017

Finnish

Suffix

-ina (front vowel harmony variant -inä, linguistic notation -inA)

1. Alternative form of -na (suffix deriving nouns from verbs)

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish -ina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈina/

Suffix

-ina

1. used to form some female names

   ‎Devi + ‎-ina → ‎Devina

   ‎Karen + ‎-ina → ‎Karenina

Notes

Some names already have this ending and do not derived with this suffix, for example Safina (from Arabic سَفِينة (safīna, “ship”)) or Sabrina (from Arabic صَابْرِينَا (ṣābrīnā), ultimately from English).

Interlingua

Etymology

Borrowed from English -ine, French -ine, Italian -ina, Portuguese -ina/Spanish -ina, all ultimately from Latin -īna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈina/

Suffix

1=n

-ina

1. (chemistry) forms nouns from nouns, denoting a technical term for a substance; container

   ‎caseo (“cheese”) + ‎-ina → ‎caseina (“caseine”)

   ‎globulo (“globule”) + ‎-ina → ‎globulino (“globuline”)

   ‎vacca (“cow”) + ‎-ina → ‎vaccina (“vaccine”)

Derived terms

References

• Alexander Gode, Hugh E. Blair (1955) Interlingua: A Grammar of the International Language, →ISBN

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: -ì‧na

Etymology 1

From Latin -īna.

Suffix

-ina f (noun-forming suffix, plural -ine)

1. inflectional suffix used to form diminutives of feminine nouns

   ‎mano (“hand”) + ‎-ina → ‎manina (“small hand”)

   ‎coperta (“blanket”) + ‎-ina → ‎copertina (“cover”)

2. used to form the feminine of masculine nouns and given names

   ‎eroe (“hero”) + ‎-ina → ‎eroina (“heroine”)

   ‎Giuseppe + ‎-ina → ‎Giuseppina

3. used to form collective numerals

   ‎cinquanta (“fifty”) + ‎-ina → ‎cinquantina (“a total of about fifty”)

4. used to derive nouns denoting a profession

   ‎Croce Rossa (“Red Cross”) + ‎-ina → ‎crocerossina (“Red Cross nurse”)

5. used to derive nouns denoting an ethnic or geographical origin

   ‎Alessandria (“Alessandria; Alexandria”) + ‎-ina → ‎alessandrina (“female native or inhabitant of Alessandria or Alexandria”)

6. used to derive adjectives denoting composition, color or other qualities

Suffix

-ina f (non-lemma form of adjective-forming suffix)

1. feminine singular of -ino (suffix forming relational adjectives and demonyms)

   ‎smeraldo (“emerald”) + ‎-ina → ‎smeraldina (“emerald (relational; feminine singular); emerald green (feminine singular)”)

Etymology 2

Suffix

-ina f (noun-forming suffix, plural -ine)

1. (chemistry) used to form names of chemical substances; -ine

Derived terms

See also

• -etta
• -uccia

Anagrams

• ain, ani

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈiː.na/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.na/,

Etymology 1

Nominalization of the feminine form of -īnus (“of or pertaining to”). For the nouns naming locations, perhaps compare the feminine gender of taberna (“shop, store”). Nouns in -īna with abstract senses, such as medicīna f (“practice of medicine”), can be interpreted as adjectives in agreement with a noun ars f (“art”) that is omitted by ellipsis.

Suffix

-īna f (genitive -īnae); first declension

1. Used to form nouns describing places where a certain activity is carried out, or abstract nouns naming activities

   ‎opifex (“worker, craftsman, artisan”) + ‎-īna → ‎officīna (“workshop, workroom”)

   ‎coquus (“cook”) + ‎-īna → ‎coquīna (“kitchen; cookery”)

   ‎fodiō (“to dig”) + ‎-īna → ‎fodīna (“mine”)

   ‎medicus (“doctor, physician”) + ‎-īna → ‎medicīna (“medicine; cure; practice of medicine”)

2. Used to form nouns or names denoting female beings

   ‎gallus (“rooster, cock”) + ‎-īna → ‎gallīna (“hen”)

   ‎cloāca (“sewer”) + ‎-īna → ‎Cloācīna (“goddess of the Cloaca Maxima”)

Usage notes

Nouns in -īna often show syncope of an internal syllable preceding the suffix, as in doctor, doctrīna; figulus (“potter”), figlīna (“potter's workshop”); opifex (“craftsman, artisan, worker”), officīna (“workshop”); and discipulus, disciplīna. Some have alternative forms without syncope, sometimes attested specifically in the context of Old Latin, such as discipulīna and opificīna (found in Plautus). Many nouns in -īna are built on nouns that serve as the name of professions or occupations, including a number of formations in -trīna from agent nouns in -tor.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (forms nouns denoting places): -āria, -ārium, -tōrium

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Suffix

-īna

1. inflection of -īnus:
   1. nominative/vocative/ablative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

References

Maori

Suffix

-ina

1. passive ending (used for words ending in 'a')

Derived terms

Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *-ina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /ina/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ina/

Suffix

-ina

1. forms feminine nouns of various meanings

Derived terms

Descendants

• Polish: -ina

Polish

Alternative forms

• -yna

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish -ina, from Proto-Slavic *-ina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.na/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: i‧na

Suffix

-ina f

1. (obsolete) appended to nouns or proper nouns, often surnames to form nouns meaning: wife of

   Synonym: -owa

2. (obsolete) appended to animals to mean meat of
3. (obsolete) appended to trees to form nouns meaning: forest of
4. forms feminine nouns of various meanings

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• -ina in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Suffix

-ina f (noun-forming suffix, plural -inas)

1. (chemistry) -ine, -in

Derived terms

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *-ina.

Suffix

-ina (Cyrillic spelling -ина)

1. Suffix appended to words to create feminine nouns.
2. Suffix appended to words to create a possessive form of feminine nouns.
3. Suffix appended to noun roots to form an augmentative (the resulting noun is always feminine) frequently with pejorative or negative connotation.

Declension

Derived terms

See also

• -arina
• -enina

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *-ina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /-ina/, /-ìːna/

Suffix

-ina or -ína f

1. added to adjectives to form an abstract noun

Derived terms

Spanish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French -ine.

Suffix

-ina f (noun-forming suffix, plural -inas)

1. (chemistry) -ine
2. (biochemistry) -in

Etymology 2

Suffix

-ina f (noun-forming suffix, plural -inas)

1. female equivalent of -ino

Suffix

-ina f (non-lemma form of adjective-forming suffix)

1. feminine singular of -ino

Derived terms

Further reading

• “-ina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *-ina.

Suffix

-ina f

1. forms feminine nouns of various meanings