regionala

Regionala is a term that appears in several languages as a morphological form of the adjective regional, meaning relating to a region. Because languages with inflected adjectives vary in gender and number, regionala can function as a feminine singular form or as a plural form depending on the language’s grammar and orthographic conventions. In Romanian, for example, regională (often written without diacritics as regionala in ASCII text) is the feminine singular form used to describe feminine nouns referring to regional matters. In other languages with similar roots, regionala may appear in different inflected forms such as regionale or regionala according to local rules.

The exact interpretation of regionala is therefore language-specific. It is not a standalone term with a single, universal meaning, but rather a grammatical variant used to express a regional relation within a sentence. In practice, regionala may also occur as part of proper nouns, titles, or organizational names in contexts where the root concept of “regional” is intended to be emphasized.

Etymology traces regionala to the Latin regionalis, via various Romance and other European languages that preserve the sense of belonging to a region. Its cousins in English and other languages include regional, region, and regionalism, which share the same semantic field.

See also: regional, region, regionalism.