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Why does "regina" primarily mean "filia regis" and only secondarily mean a queen?
It doesn't.
Or at least, you'd need more evidence than the ordering of entries in Du Cange in order to reach that conclusion. It's an outlier among dictionaries: the sense "daughter of a king&...
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Why does "regina" primarily mean "filia regis" and only secondarily mean a queen?
My dictionary (Pinkster) gives "queen" as its primary meaning. For princess, it says poetical or post-classical. Lewis & Short also seem to list "princess" only under ...
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