different between colour vs regio

English

Alternative forms

• color (American spelling)

Pronunciation

Homophone: culler

Noun

colour (countable and uncountable, plural colours) (British spelling, Canadian spelling)

1. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Britain standard spelling of color.

Adjective

colour (not comparable)

1. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Britain standard spelling of color.

Related terms

• colourimeter

Verb

colour (third-person singular simple present colours, present participle colouring, simple past and past participle coloured)

1. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Britain standard spelling of color.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• courol, ur-cool

Middle English

Alternative forms

• colur, color, culur, coler, coloure, kolour

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman colur, from Latin color.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku?lu?r/, /?kulur/

Noun

colour (plural colours or coloures)

1. colour, hue, shade
2. pigment, dye (substance for colouring)
3. method (literary or rhetorical)
4. justification, explanation (often feigned)

Descendants

• English: color, colour
• Scots: colour

References

• “c?l?ur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

See also

Old French

Noun

colour f (oblique plural colours, nominative singular colour, nominative plural colours)

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of color

English

Etymology

From Latin.

Noun

regio (plural regiones)

1. (astronomy, geology) In planetary geology, any of the large areas of a planet or moon that are strongly differentiated in colour or albedo.

Translations

Anagrams

• orgie

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin regio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?re?.?i.o?/
• Hyphenation: re?gio
• Rhymes: -e??io?

Noun

regio f (plural regio's or regionen, diminutive regiootje n)

1. region

Synonyms

• gebied

Derived terms

• woonregio

Related terms

• regionaal

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: regio

Anagrams

• groei

Indonesian

Etymology

Either directly borrowed or through Dutch regio, from Latin regio. Doublet of region.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?re?io?]
• Hyphenation: ré?gio

Noun

regio (first-person possessive regioku, second-person possessive regiomu, third-person possessive regionya)

1. (anatomy) region: a place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.

Related terms

Further reading

• “regio” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin r?gius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?.d??o/
• Hyphenation: rè?gio
• Rhymes: -?d?o

Adjective

regio (feminine regia, masculine plural regi, feminine plural regie)

1. royal

   Synonyms: reale, regale

Anagrams

• erigo
• orgie

Further reading

• regio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From reg? +? -i?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?re.?i.o?/, [?r??io?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?re.d??i.o/, [?r??d??i?]

Noun

regi? f (genitive regi?nis); third declension

1. direction, line
2. boundary line, boundary
3. region, district, province
4. ground
5. (figuratively) sphere, department

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• cuius regi?, eius religi?
• ? regi?ne
• regi?n?lis
• regi?n?liter
• regi?n?tim

Descendants

• Italian: rione
• Old French: royon, reiun, rëon
• Old Occitan: reion
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Ladin: raion
• Sicilian: rijuni (obsolete)
• Venetian: rejon

Borrowings

References

• regio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• regio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• regio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• regio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• regio in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• regio in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• regio in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• regio in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin r?gius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rexjo/, [?re.xjo]

Adjective

regio (feminine regia, masculine plural regios, feminine plural regias)

1. royal

   Synonym: real

2. (Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Nicaragua, El Salvador) stupendous

   Synonyms: bacán, bárbaro, chévere, estupendo, excelente, guay

3. (Mexico) Monterreyan, born in Monterrey, short form of regiomontano

   Synonym: regiomontano

Derived terms

• agua regia

Related terms

• real
• reino
• rey

Further reading

• “regio” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.