Ina

Short form of given names ending in -ina, e.g. Georgina, Christina, Wilhelmina.

Ina

1. A female given name from Latin.
   • 1935, Winthrop Ames, What Shall We Name the Baby?, New York: Simon and Schuster, page 18:

     Miss Ina Claire tells me that half her acquaintances call her "Eenah" and the other half "Eynah". She answers docilely to either.

   • 1995, Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh, →ISBN, page 139:

     The eldest, originally called Christina in spite of her Jewish father's protests, eventually had her name sliced in half. "Stop sulking, Abe," Aurora commanded. "From now on she's plain Ina without the Christ." So poor Ina grew up with only half a handle, and when the second child was born a year later matters were made worse because this time Aurora insisted on "Inamorata". Abraham protested again: "People will confuse," he said plaintively. "And this Ina-more it is like saying she is Ina-plus."

• -ian, ANI, Ain, Ani, Ian, NIA, Nia, ain', ani, nai, nia

Short form of Wilhelmina and similar names.

Ina

1. a female given name

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.naː/

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• Hyphenation: Ina

Ina f

1. a female given name

Short form of names ending with -ina, such as Carlina, Elina, etc.

Ina f

1. a female given name

Matronymics

• son of Ina: Inuson
• daughter of Ina: Inudóttir

From Ancient Greek Ἴνα (Ína).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.na/, [ˈɪnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.na/, [ˈiːnä]

Ina f sg (genitive Inae); first declension

1. An inland town in the south of Sicily mentioned by Ptolemy

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Inensis

• “Ina”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1894. From names ending in -ina, and from Inese.

Ina f

1. a female given name

• Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, →ISBN
• Population Register of Latvia: Ina was the only given name of 2735 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010.

From names ending in -ina, such as Katarina and Regina, and from Ineza.

Ina f

1. a female given name

Short form of names ending in -ina, such as Karolina, Katarina, Nikolina.

Ina

1. a female given name.Variant: Ine

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• IPA^(key): /ˈi.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: I‧na
• Homophone: -ina

Ina f

1. Ina (a river in northwest Poland)

• Ina in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Short form of names ending in -ina, such as Sabina, Severina, and of Inez. First recorded in Sweden in 1836.

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Ina c (genitive Inas)

1. a female given name

• nia