reino

See also: Reino and reinó

Galician

Coat or arms of the Kingdom of Galicia

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese reino, reyno, from Latin rēgnum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrejno̝/

Noun

reino m (plural reinos)

1. realm; kingdom (a realm having a king and/or queen as its actual or nominal sovereign)
   • c1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 348:

     el rrey don Fernãdo, coydãdo fazer prol dos rreynos et de seus fillos, partio os rreynos en esta guisa: deu a dõ Sancho, que era o mayor, Castela et Nauarra ata o Ebro, quanto tijna cona Estremadura; et deu a dom Afonso, o meyão, Leõ et Asturas cõ hũa peça de Cãpos; et deu a dom Garçia, que era o meor, o rreyno de Galiza, cõ todo o que elle gaanara en Portugal

     king Ferdinand, wanting to act for the good of the realms and of his children, distributed his realms in this way: to Sancho, who was the elder, he gave Castille and Navarre till the river Ebro, together with the frontier; to Alfonso, the middle son, he granted León and Asturias, with a piece of Campos; and he give Garcia, who was the younger, the kingdom of Galicia with everything he gained in Portugal

   • 1346, M. Lucas Alvarez & P. P. Lucas Domínguez (eds.), San Pedro de Ramirás. Un monasterio femenino en la Edad Media. Colección diplomática. Santiago: Caixa Galicia, page 497:

     tan ben no reyno de Portugal, conmo no reyno de Galisa

     in the kingdom of Portugal as well as in the kingdom of Galicia

2. (taxonomy) kingdom

Related terms

• raíña
• rei
• reinado
• reinar

Verb

reino

1. first-person singular present indicative of reinar

References

• “reino” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “reyno” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “reino” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “reino” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

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Old Portuguese

Alternative forms

• reyno

Etymology

From Latin rēgnum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrej.no/

Noun

reino m

1. kingdom
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 224 (facsimile):

     Como ſanta maria de Terena q̇ e no Reino de Portugal, reſſucitou hũa menỹa morta.

     How Holy Mary of Terena, which is in the Kingdom of Portugal, revived a dead girl.

Descendants

• Fala: reinu
• Galician: reino
• Portuguese: reino

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Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish reino.

Noun

reino

1. kingdom

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• reyno (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Portuguese reino, reyno (“kingdom”), from Latin rēgnum, influenced by rei. Cognate with Galician and Spanish reino, Catalan regne, Occitan and French règne and Italian regno.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁej.nu/ [ˈheɪ̯.nu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁej.nu/ [ˈheɪ̯.nu]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʁej.nu/ [ˈχeɪ̯.nu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁej.no/ [ˈheɪ̯.no]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɐj.nu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɐj.nu/
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁej.nu/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁe.nu/

• Hyphenation: rei‧no

Noun

reino m (plural reinos)

1. kingdom (nation having as supreme ruler a king and/or queen)

   Era uma vez uma princesa que vivia num reino longínquo.

   Once upon a time, there was a princess who lived in a faraway kingdom.

2. (biology, taxonomy) kingdom

   Os seres humanos pertencem ao reino animal.

   Humans belong to the animal kingdom.

Related terms

• rei

Descendants

• Swahili: Ureno (“Portugal”)

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Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish reino~regno, borrowed from Latin rēgnum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈreino/ [ˈrei̯.no]

• Audio (Colombia)

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• Rhymes: -eino
• Syllabification: rei‧no

Noun

reino m (plural reinos)

1. kingdom
2. (taxonomy) kingdom

Derived terms

• en el reino de los ciegos, el tuerto es el rey
• reino de los cielos
• Reino Unido
• Salón del Reino

 

Related terms

• rey
• reina
• regir

Verb

reino

1. first-person singular present indicative of reinar

Further reading

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