reino

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese reino, from Latin rēgnum. Compare Portuguese reino.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrejno/ [ˈrej.nʊ]
• Rhymes: -ejno
• Hyphenation: rei‧no

reino m (plural reinos)

1. realm; kingdom (a realm having a king and/or queen as its actual or nominal sovereign)
   • c. 1295, R. Lorenzo, editor, 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, editors, 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

• raíña
• rei
• reinado
• reinar

reino

1. first-person singular present indicative of reinar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “reino”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “reyno”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “reino”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “reino”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• reyno

Inherited from Latin rēgnum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrej.no/

reino m (plural reinos)

1. kingdom
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, 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.

• reino de Deos

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

• Universo Cantigas - "reino"

From Spanish reino.

reino

1. kingdom

• reyno (obsolete)

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ejnu, (Portugal) -ɐjnu
• Hyphenation: rei‧no

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese reino (“kingdom”), from Latin rēgnum. Compare Galician and Spanish reino.

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.

• → Swahili: Ureno (“Portugal”)
• → Tetum: reinu

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

reino

1. first-person singular present indicative of reinar

• “reino”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “reino”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈreino/ [ˈrei̯.no]

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• Rhymes: -eino
• Syllabification: rei‧no

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

reino m (plural reinos)

1. kingdom
2. (taxonomy) kingdom
3. realm, world

   entrar al reino de la fantasía

   to enter into the realm of fantasy

reino

1. first-person singular present indicative of reinar

• “reino”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024