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reine
- inflection of rein:
Inherited from Old French reïne, reyne, royne, from Latin rēgīna.
- IPA(key): /ʁɛn/, /ʁɛːn/
- Rhymes: -ɛn
- Homophones: raine, raines, reines, rêne, rênes (general), renne, rennes, Rennes (may be short in length-distinguishing accents)
reine f (plural reines, masculine roi)
- queen (a female monarch)
1959, Jacques Brel, Ne me quitte pas:
Je ferai un domaine où l’amour sera roi, où l’amour sera loi, où tu seras reine
- I will create a realm where love will be king, where love will be law, where you will be queen
- queen (a reproductive female animal in a hive)
- “reine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
reine
- inflection of reinar:
reine
- inflection of rein:
From Old Dutch reini, from Proto-Germanic *hrainiz.
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Adjective | |||||
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Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Plural | ||
Nominative | Indefinite | reine | reine | reine | reine |
Definite | reine | reine | |||
Accusative | Indefinite | reinen | reine | reine | reine |
Definite | reine | ||||
Genitive | Indefinite | reines | reinere | reines | reinere |
Definite | reines, reinen | reines, reinen | |||
Dative | reinen | reinere | reinen | reinen |
reine
- neatly, properly, according to custom
- cleanly, completely
- “reine (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- “reine (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “reine (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “reine (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page II
reine
- Alternative form of reyn (“rain”)
From Old French royne, reine, from Latin rēgīna.
reine f (plural reines)
- barbe d'la reine (“love-in-a-mist”, literally “queen's beard”)
- Dgieu sauve la Reine (“God Save the Queen”)
- faithe la reine (“to put on airs”)
- hèrbe à la reine (“petty spurge”)
- reine méthe (“queen mother”)
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- Hyphenation: rei‧ne
reine
- inflection of reinar:
reine
- inflection of reinar: