Meanings
- Used to form feminine nouns.
I HAVE PROBABLY INVENTED THE PROFESSION OF LAWYERINA
2015, Jim Benton, “Thursday 12”, in Live Each Day to the Dumbest (Dear Dumb Diary: Year Two), New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Inc., →ISBN2 more examples
Here are the male spider and the female spider (which shall be named “spiderina” in this article), both of the species of the garden spider. The former is only two-thirds of the size of Miss Spiderina.
1915 May, Wilhelm Boelsche, translated by Rheamars Dredenov, “The Love Adventures of the Spider”, in Charles H[ope] Kerr, editor, The International Socialist Review, volume XV, number 11, Chicago, Ill.: Charles H. Kerr & Company, page 659, column 2Gobta and his attackers turned around to find a goblina staring them down—a fighter, judging by her muddy red hair. […] Hobgoblins of either gender were high-level creatures capable of language, far more intelligent than their goblin relatives.
2017, Fuse, translated by Kevin Gifford, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, volume 1, New York, N.Y.: Yen Press, LLC, →ISBNSynonyms: -ine
- Used to form names of musical instruments.
Synonyms & antonyms
suffixUsed to form feminine nouns.
Origin
- Spanish-ina
- Classical Latin-īna
- Italian-ina
- English-ina
From Italian -ina and its etymon Classical Latin -īna. In some instances perhaps also partly via Spanish -ina. Doublet of -ine.
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Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
-ina. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-ina
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