Roine

== Catalan == === Etymology === From Old Catalan Royne, from Latin Rhodanus, from Ancient Greek Ῥοδᾰνός (Rhodănós). === Proper noun === Roine m Rhone, Rhône (a major river in Switzerland and France that flows from the Alps to the Mediterranean Sea) Rhône (a department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France) ==== Derived terms ==== Boques del Roine Roine-Alps ==== Related terms ==== rodaniana === Further reading === Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “Roine”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan) == Finnish == === Etymology === Unknown. Theories have included connection with a dialectal term roine (“roar, thunder, noise”) (~ roikua?) and a comparison to Indo-European *kroyn-is (whence Proto-Germanic *hrainiz (“clean, pure”)). The surname and given name were inspired by depictions of the lake in popular literature in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, such as in poems by Zachris Topelius (especially Kesäpäivä Kangasalla) and Karl Collan. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈroi̯neˣ/, [ˈro̞i̯ne̞(ʔ)] Rhymes: -oine Syllabification(key): Roi‧ne Hyphenation(key): Roi‧ne === Proper noun === Roine a lake in Finland a Finnish surname transferred from the place name (rare) a male given name transferred from the place name (rare) a female given name transferred from the place name ==== Declension ==== ==== Statistics ==== The given name Roine belongs to 32 male individuals (and as a middle name to 31 more), and also belongs to 14 female individuals, according to August 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland. Roine is the 1177th (tied with 2 other surnames) most common surname in Finland, belonging to 719 individuals, according to August 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland. === References ===