Reggio Calabria

English

Etymology

From Italian Reggio Calabria, Old Italian Reggio from Late Latin Rēgium, Latin Rhēgium, from Ancient Greek Ῥήγιον (Rhḗgion).

Proper noun

Reggio Calabria

1. Reggio Calabria (a historical province and metropolitan city of Calabria, Italy).
2. Reggio Calabria (a city and commune, the provincial capital of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy).
3. (history) Regium, an important flourishing Ancient Greek colonial settlement in Magna Graecia on the Strait of Messina from the early 1st millennium BCE thru the Hellenistic, Ancient Roman, Byzantine Roman and medieval epochs.

Translations

province

• French: Reggio de Calabre (fr)
• Greek: Ρήγιο (Rígio), Ρέτζο-Καλάμπρια (Rétzo-Kalámpria)

  Ancient Greek: Ῥήγιον (Rhḗgion)

  Italiot Greek: Ρήγι, Rìghi

• Italian: Reggio Calabria (it) f
• Latin: Rhēgium, Rēgium
• Ligurian: Reggio Calabbria
• Marathi: रेज्जो कालाब्रिया (rejjo kālābriyā)
• Neapolitan: Reggio Calavria
• Occitan: Reggio de Calàbria
• Piedmontese: Res ëd Calabria
• Portuguese: Régio da Calábria
• Sicilian: Riggiu Calabbria, Rìggiu, Rrìggiu
• Spanish: Regio de Calabria
• Venetan: Rejo Całabria

capital

• French: Reggio de Calabre (fr)
• Greek: Ρήγιο (Rígio)

  Ancient Greek: Ῥήγιον (Rhḗgion)

  Italiot Greek: Ρήγι, Rìghi

• Italian: Reggio Calabria (it) f
• Latin: Rhēgium, Rēgium
• Ligurian: Reggio Calabbria
• Marathi: रेज्जो कालाब्रिया (rejjo kālābriyā)
• Neapolitan: Reggio Calavria
• Occitan: Reggio de Calàbria
• Piedmontese: Res ëd Calabria
• Portuguese: Régio da Calábria
• Sicilian: Riggiu Calabbria, Rìggiu, Rrìggiu
• Spanish: Regio de Calabria
• Venetan: Rejo Całabria

Italian

Etymology

From the earlier Old Italian Reggio, from Late Latin Rēgium, Latin Rhēgium, from Ancient Greek Ῥήγιον (Rhḗgion). The city became known as Reggio Calabria after the Italian Unification.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛd.d͡ʒo kaˈla.brja/, /ˈred.d͡ʒo kaˈla.brja/

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• Hyphenation: Règ‧gio‧Ca‧là‧bria, Rég‧gio‧Ca‧là‧bria

Proper noun

Reggio Calabria f

1. Reggio Calabria (a historical province and metropolitan city of Calabria, Italy)
2. Reggio Calabria (a city and commune, the provincial capital of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy)
3. (history) Regium, an important flourishing Ancient Greek colonial settlement in Magna Graecia on the Strait of Messina from the early 1st millennium BCE thru the Hellenistic, Ancient Roman, Byzantine Roman and medieval epochs

Derived terms

• reggino