Feminine

-ina

Meaning

  1. (feminine, morpheme) inflectional suffix used to form diminutives of feminine nouns
  2. (feminine, morpheme) used to form the feminine of masculine nouns and given names
  3. (feminine, morpheme) used to form collective numerals
  4. (feminine, morpheme) used to derive nouns denoting a profession
  5. (feminine, morpheme) used to derive nouns denoting an ethnic or geographical origin
  6. (feminine, morpheme) used to derive adjectives denoting composition, color or other qualities

Concepts

Hyphenated as
-ì‧na
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈi.na/
Etymology

From Latin -īna.

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