reinar

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese reinar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin rēgnāre. Compare Portuguese reinar.

• IPA^(key): /rejˈnaɾ/

reinar (first-person singular present reino, first-person singular preterite reinei, past participle reinado)

1. to reign
   • 1357, M. Romaní Martínez, editor, La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira, Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 270:

     Andreu Sanches de Gres endeantado mayor en Galisa por nosso sennor el rey don Pedro que Deus leyxe reynar por moytos annos e boos

     Andreu Sánchez de Gres, governor of Galicia in behalf of our lord the king Don Pedro, God let him reign for many good years

2. to like, enjoy; to be good for

• raíña
• rei
• reino

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “reinar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “reynar”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “reinar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “reinar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “reinar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “reinar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “reinar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

reinar m

1. indefinite plural of rein

Inherited from Latin rēgnāre.

reinar

1. to reign

• Galician: reinar
• Portuguese: reinar

• Universo Cantigas - "reinar"

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese reinar, from Latin rēgnāre. Compare Galician reinar.

• Hyphenation: rei‧nar

reinar (first-person singular present reino, first-person singular preterite reinei, past participle reinado)

1. to reign
2. (figurative) to be influential or predominant
3. (Rio Grande do Sul) to be in heat (condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile)
4. (Rio Grande do Sul) to be angry or easily irritated

• reino
• rei
• reger

Borrowed from Latin rēgnāre.

• IPA^(key): /reiˈnaɾ/ [rei̯ˈnaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: rei‧nar

reinar (first-person singular present reino, first-person singular preterite reiné, past participle reinado)

1. to reign; to rule over
   • 1909, Casiodoro de Reina, Biblia Reina-Valera, Revisión 1909, Libro II de las Crónicas 26:3

     De diez y seis años era Uzzías cuando comenzó á reinar, y cincuenta y dos años reinó en Jerusalem.

     "Uzziah was sixteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem."

• “reinar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28