asina

See also: Asina, Aşina, aşina, and asină

Asturian

Interjection

asina

1. hopefully

Conjunction

asina

1. as soon as; as
2. although; even though

Adverb

asina

1. That way; like that

Derived terms

• asina asina
• asina como asina
• o cosa asina

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: asinas, asinât

Verb

asina

1. third-person singular past historic of asiner

Galician

Verb

asina

1. inflection of asinar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Etymology

From Latin asina, feminine of asinus.

Noun

asina f (plural asine, masculine asino)

1. she-ass
2. (figurative) donkey (female)

Anagrams

• ansai, ansia, sanai

Latin

Etymology

From asinus. Also see -a.

Pronunciation 1

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈa.si.na/, [ˈäs̠ɪnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.si.na/, [ˈäːs̬inä]

Noun

asina f (genitive asinae); first declension

1. a she-ass
   • 116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, Agricultural Topics 2.8.1
   • 116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, Agricultural Topics 2.8.6
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.171
   • c. 500 CE, Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae 7.10

Declension

First-declension noun (dative/ablative plural in -ābus).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	asina	asinae
Genitive	asinae	asinārum
Dative	asinae	asinābus
Accusative	asinam	asinās
Ablative	asinā	asinābus
Vocative	asina	asinae

Derived terms

• Asina
• asina curta (Mediaeval)

Descendants

• Italian: asina
• Romanian: asină

Adjective

asina

1. inflection of asinus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Pronunciation 2

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈa.si.naː/, [ˈäs̠ɪnäː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.si.na/, [ˈäːs̬inä]

Adjective

asinā

1. ablative feminine singular of asinus

Noun

asinā f

1. ablative singular of asina

References

• “ăsĭna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 1 ăsĭna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 171/2.

Spanish

Adverb

asina

1. (archaic or regional) Alternative form of así

Further reading

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