Etymology

Salve Regina

Today it means: A hymn to the Virgin Mary, one of the Marian antiphons, also prayed as part of the rosary. Full definition →

Latin salvē rēgīna
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The story

  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromsalvē rēgīna“hail, queen”
  2. English todaySalve Regina

Learned borrowing from Latin salvē rēgīna (“hail, queen”), the opening of the prayer in that language.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.