Ina

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ina"

English

Etymology

Short form of given names ending in -ina, e.g. Georgina, Christina, Wilhelmina.

Proper noun

Ina

1. A female given name from Latin.
   • 1935 Winthrop Ames: What Shall We Name the Baby? Simon and Schuster, New York. page 18:

     Miss Ina Claire tells me that half her acquaintances call her "Eenah" and the other half "Eynah". She answers docilely to either.

   • 1995 Salman Rushdie: The Moor's Last Sigh →ISBN page 139:

     The eldest, originally called Christina in spite of her Jewish father's protests, eventually had her name sliced in half. "Stop sulking, Abe," Aurora commanded. "From now on she's plain Ina without the Christ." So poor Ina grew up with only half a handle, and when the second child was born a year later matters were made worse because this time Aurora insisted on "Inamorata". Abraham protested again: "People will confuse," he said plaintively. "And this Ina-more it is like saying she is Ina-plus."

Translations

female given name

• Danish: Ina
• Finnish: Iina (fi)
• Latvian: Ina f

• Lithuanian: Ina f
• Norwegian: Ine, Ina
• Swedish: Ina

Anagrams

• -ian, ANI, Ain, Ani, Ian, NIA, Nia, ain', ani, nai, nia

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Danish

Etymology

Short form of Wilhelmina and similar names.

Proper noun

Ina

1. A female given name.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.naː/

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• Hyphenation: Ina

Proper noun

Ina f

1. A female given name.

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Faroese

Proper noun

Ina f

1. A female given name

Usage notes

Matronymics

• son of Ina: Inuson
• daughter of Ina: Inudóttir

Declension

	Singular
	Indefinite
Nominative	Ina
Accusative	Inu
Dative	Inu
Genitive	Inu

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἴνα (Ína).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.na/, [ˈɪnä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.na/, [ˈiːnɑ]

Proper noun

Ina f sg (genitive Inae); first declension

1. An inland town in the south of Sicily mentioned by Ptolemy

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Ina
Genitive	Inae
Dative	Inae
Accusative	Inam
Ablative	Inā
Vocative	Ina
Locative	Inae

Derived terms

• Inensis

References

• Ina in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

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Latvian

Etymology

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1894. From names ending in -ina, and from Inese.

Proper noun

Ina f

1. A female given name.

References

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
• [1] Population Register of Latvia: Ina was the only given name of 2735 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

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Lithuanian

Etymology

From names ending in -ina, such as Katarina and Regina, and from Ineza.

Proper noun

Ina f

1. A female given name.

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Norwegian

Etymology

Short form of names ending in -ina, such as Karolina, Katarina, Nikolina.

Proper noun

Ina

1. A female given name.Variant: Ine.

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Swedish

Etymology

Short form of names ending in -ina, such as Sabina, Severina, and of Inez. First recorded in Sweden in 1836.

Proper noun

Ina c (genitive Inas)

1. A female given name.

Anagrams

• nia