Other forms: regions
A region is a large area of a country with something in common. The northern region, a wine region, regional government.
What the something is varies — climate, language, administration — and that is why the word is useful and vague at once. In the region of means approximately. The Latin regio comes from regere, to rule, and first meant a boundary line.
1nounregionA large area with something in common.
“The wine from this region is famous all over the world.”
region is an area.
Latin regio means a district or boundary, from regere, to rule or direct in a straight line.
Proto-Indo-European
*h₃enh₂-
Latin
regiō
Anglo-Norman
regiun
Middle English
regioun
English, today
region
From Middle English regioun, from Anglo-Norman regiun, from Latin regiō, from regō. a doublet of regio.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA