[ˈreː.ɡi.a], [ˈreː.ɡi.aː], [ˈrɛː.d͡ʒi.a]
OrigoSubstantive noun from rēgius (“regal, royal; a royal [thing]”) directly and via various ellipses of collocative terms with feminine nouns (e.g. domus, "house", and urbs, "city"). Compare the origin of Greek βασιλική (vasilikí, “basilica”), from the Byzantine Greek term βασιλική στοά (basilikḗ stoá, “royal building”).
- declension-1a royal palace, castle, fortress, residence; court; kingship
- declension-1the royal tent in a camp
- declension-1a royal city, capital
- declension-1a roofed colonnade, portico, hall
- declension-1the central entrance to a theatre
- feminine, form-of, nominative, singular, vocativenominative/vocative feminine singular
- accusative, form-of, neuter, nominative, pluralnominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
- ablative, feminine, form-of, singularablative feminine singular of rēgius
Formaerēgia(canonical, feminine) · rēgiae(genitive) · rēgia(nominative, singular) · rēgiae(nominative, plural) · rēgiae(genitive, singular) · rēgiārum(genitive, plural) · rēgiae(dative, singular) · rēgiīs(dative, plural) · rēgiam(accusative, singular) · rēgiās(accusative, plural) · rēgiā(ablative, singular) · rēgiīs(ablative, plural) · rēgia(singular, vocative) · rēgiae(plural, vocative) · rēgia(canonical) · rēgiā(canonical)
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