regatta
English
Etymology
From Italian (Venetian dialect) regatta (“contention for mastery”), from regattare (“compete, haggle, sell at retail”), possibly from ricattare; or from Italian regata (“boat race, regatta”), via Vulgar Latin *aurigata from Latin auriga.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹɪˈɡætə/, /ɹɪˈɡɑtə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ætə
- Rhymes: -ɑːtə
Noun
regatta (countable and uncountable, plural regattas or regatte)
- (countable) A series of boat races, or sometimes a single race.
- 1942, Emily Carr, “Regatta”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
- […] many people living along the harbour front had boathouses and boats of their own, for regattas and water sports were one of Victoria's chief attractions.
- 1999, Oli Rosenbladt, “Virginia Women Sweep Rivanna Romp”, in Rowing News, volume 6, number 21, page 8:
- The novice eights race demonstrated one of the reasons UVa manages to be so good year after year; the UVa novs finished first and second in the event, while Clemson's novice crew, the surprise of the regatta, took third.
- A striped cotton fabric.
Derived terms
Translations
boat race
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Finnish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈreɡɑtːɑ/, [ˈre̞ɡɑ̝t̪ːɑ̝]
- Rhymes: -eɡɑtːɑ
- Syllabification(key): re‧gat‧ta
- Hyphenation(key): re‧gat‧ta
Noun
regatta
- regatta (boat race)
Declension
| Inflection of regatta (Kotus type 9*C/kala, tt-t gradation) | |||
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| nominative | regatta | regatat | |
| genitive | regatan | regattojen | |
| partitive | regattaa | regattoja | |
| illative | regattaan | regattoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | regatta | regatat | |
| accusative | nom. | regatta | regatat |
| gen. | regatan | ||
| genitive | regatan | regattojen regattain rare | |
| partitive | regattaa | regattoja | |
| inessive | regatassa | regatoissa | |
| elative | regatasta | regatoista | |
| illative | regattaan | regattoihin | |
| adessive | regatalla | regatoilla | |
| ablative | regatalta | regatoilta | |
| allative | regatalle | regatoille | |
| essive | regattana | regattoina | |
| translative | regataksi | regatoiksi | |
| abessive | regatatta | regatoitta | |
| instructive | — | regatoin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Further reading
- “regatta”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023
Anagrams
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Italian (Venetian dialect) regatta.
Noun
regatta m (definite singular regattaen, indefinite plural regattaer, definite plural regattaene)
Synonyms
References
- “regatta” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Italian (Venetian dialect) regatta.
Noun
regatta m (definite singular regattaen, indefinite plural regattaer or regattaar, definite plural regattaene or regattaane)
References
- “regatta” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Etymology
Noun
regatta c
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | regatta | regattas |
| definite | regattan | regattans | |
| plural | indefinite | regattor | regattors |
| definite | regattorna | regattornas |
Further reading
- regatta in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
- regatta in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
- regatta in Svenskt nautiskt lexikon (1920)