Tina

Short form of Christina or of any female name ending in -tina, such as Martina or Albertina; frequently from Latin -ina

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiːnə/

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Tina (countable and uncountable, plural Tinas)

1. A female given name.
   1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
   2. A female given name from Latin.
2. A lake in Alaska, near/around Anchorage.

Tina (uncountable)

1. (slang) Alternative letter-case form of tina (“crystal meth”).
   • 2017, James Wharton, Something for the Weekend‎^[1], Biteback Publishing, →ISBN:

     People struggling to merely exist on a Monday smoke Tina because they feel it's the only way to overcome the dreaded comedown from all the other drugs they've taken.

Tina

1. Alternative letter-case form of TINA (“there is no alternative”)

• nait, Atin, ain't, aniṭ, Tian, tain, anti, tian, Tani, aint, Tain, -itan, NAIT, anti-

Clipping of Kaourantina/Kaourintina or Tin +‎ -a (feminine).

Tina f

1. a diminutive of the female given name Kaourantina
2. a diminutive of the female given name Kaourintina

• Tinaig

• Alain Stéphan, Tous les Prénoms bretons, 1996, Éditions Jean-Paul Gisserot, →ISBN, page 60

Tina

1. a female given name, short for Christina and Bettina

• [2] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 24 817 females with the given name Tina have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on 19 May, 2011.

Tina f

1. a female given name

Matronymics

• son of Tinu: Tinuson
• daughter of Tina: Tinudóttir

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Tina f (genitive Tinas or Tina)

1. a diminutive of the female given names Christina, Kristina, Bettina, or Martina

• IPA^(key): /ˈti.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: Tì‧na

Tina f

1. (informal) synonym of Concetta

• anti, anti-, nati

Found in Old English as a component of the place name Tinanmūþe (“Tynemouth”). Possibly of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *tīn (“river”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (“to flow”).^[1] Compare the river Tinna.

Tina f sg (genitive Tinae); first declension

1. The river Tyne in England

First-declension noun, singular only.

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

Tina

1. a female given name, short for Christina

• Tīne

Tīna ?

1. Tyne (a river in the counties of Northumberland and Tyne and Wear, in north east England)

This noun is attested only in the oblique form Tīnan, and its gender is unclear, so the lemma may have been either Tīna (if masculine) or Tīne (if feminine)

Weak:

• Tīnanmūþ

• English: Tyne

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “Tína”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

From tina, definite form of tină.

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Tina f

1. a village in Livezi, Vâlcea County, Romania

• IPA^(key): /²tiːna/

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Tina c (genitive Tinas)

1. a female given name, short for Kristina, Martina, Albertina and similar names

• anti-, inat, inta, tian