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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian цари́ца (caríca).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /(t)sɑːˈɹɪtsə/, /zɑːˈɹɪtsə/
Noun
tsaritsa (plural tsaritsas or tsaritsy)
- 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
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Russian цари́ца (caríca).
Noun
tsaritsa m (definite singular tsaritsaen, indefinite plural tsaritsaer, definite plural tsaritsaene)
- tsarina
- Synonym: tsarina
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Russian цари́ца (caríca).
Noun
tsaritsa f (definite singular tsaritsaa, indefinite plural tsaritsaer, definite plural tsaritsaene)
- tsarina
- Synonym: tsarina
References
Swedish
Noun
tsaritsa
- tsarina (empress of several Eastern European countries, especially Russia, or the wife of a tsar)
- Synonym: tsarinna
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