English [ edit ]

Etymology [ edit ]

From the Latin r?x ( “ king ” ) , referring originally to rabbits of the Belgian "castorrex" breed, so named because their fur was similar to that of beavers. Entered English around 1920. Doublet of rajah and roy .

Noun [ edit ]

rex ( plural rexes )

1. An animal which has a genetic recessive variation that causes the guard hairs to be very short or fully lacking.

Derived terms [ edit ]

Related terms [ edit ]

• Rex

See also [ edit ]

Anagrams [ edit ]

• Ex'r , Xer , xer-

Latin [ edit ]

Alternative forms [ edit ]

• ?

Etymology [ edit ]

From Proto-Italic *r?ks , from Proto-Indo-European *h₃r??s ( “ king, ruler ” ) . Cognates include Sanskrit ????? ( r??jan , “ king ” ) and Old Irish ri ( “ king ” ) .

Pronunciation [ edit ]

• ( Classical Latin ) IPA ^{( key )} : /reːks/ , [reːks?]
• ( modern Italianate Ecclesiastical ) IPA ^{( key )} : /reks/ , [r?ks]

Noun [ edit ]

r?x   m ( genitive r?gis , feminine r?g?na ) ; third declension

1. king , ruler
   • 29 BCE ? 19 BCE , Virgil , Aeneid 1.544?545 :

     “ R?x erat Aen??s n?b?s qu? i?stior alter
     nec piet?te fuit nec bell? maior et arm?s.”

     “We had a king , Aeneas: [None] other than he was more just, nor dutiful, nor [skillful] in war and with weaponry.”

   • Late 4th century , Jerome [ et al. ], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem ( Vulgate ), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft , published 2007 , →ISBN , Danihelis 1:1:

     ann? terti? r?gn? Ioachim r?gis Iuda v?nit Nabuchodonosor r?x Babyl?nis Hier?sal?m et obs?dit eam

     "In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it."

2. ( derogatory ) despot , tyrant ( during the time of the Republic when there were no kings and executive power was usually divided )
3. ( Late Latin , chess ) king

Declension [ edit ]

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	r?x	r?g?s
Genitive	r?gis	r?gum
Dative	r?g?	r?gibus
Accusative	r?gem	r?g?s
Ablative	r?ge	r?gibus
Vocative	r?x	r?g?s

• R?cei is an early form of r?g? .

Derived terms [ edit ]

• r?gnum
• r?gulus
• r?gis f?lia , r?gis puella ( “ princess ” )
• typographus R?gis

Related terms [ edit ]

Descendants [ edit ]

• Dalmatian:
  • ra
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: re
  • Italian: re
    • → Maltese: re
  • Neapolitan: rre
  • Sicilian: re , reji
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: ra
    • Lombard: re
    • Piedmontese: rej
  • Friulian: re
  • Ladin: re
  • Ligurian: re
  • Romansch: retg , raig , rai
  • Venetian: re
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provencal: re
  • Old French: roi , rex ; rei ; rai ; roy
    • Middle French: roy
      • French: roi , roy ( obsolete )
        • Antillean Creole: wa
        • Guianese Creole: rwe
        • Haitian Creole: wa
          • ( perhaps ) ⇒ Haitian Creole: lwa
            • → English: loa
        • Karipuna Creole French: hue
        • Louisiana Creole: rwa
        • Seychellois Creole: lerwa
    • Norman:

      Continental Normandy: rai , re , rey

      Guernsey: re , roue

      Jersey: rouai

      Sark: rwe

    • Walloon: roy , rwe
    • → Middle Breton: roe
      • Breton: roue
    • → Middle Cornish: ruy
      • Cornish: ruw
    • → Middle English: roy , roye
      • English: roy
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Old Catalan: rei , rey
    • Catalan: rei
  • Old Occitan: rei
    • Occitan: rei , rei
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Navarro-Aragonese: rei , rey
    • Aragonese: rei
  • Old Leonese: rei , rey , re
    • Asturian: rei , reye
    • Leonese: rei
    • Mirandese: rei
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: rei
    • Fala: rei
    • Galician: rei
    • Portuguese: rei ( see there for further descendants )
  • Old Spanish: rey
    • Ladino: rey
    • Spanish: rey
      • Chavacano: rey
      • Papiamentu: rey
      • → San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo: rey
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: re , rei

Borrowings:

• → Albanian: regj
• → Basque: errege
• → English: rex , Rex
• → Esperanto: re?o
• → Koine Greek: ??ξ ( rh?x )
  • → Greek: ρ?γα? ( rigas )
    • → Albanian: rig
    • → Romanian: rig?
• → Ido: rejo
• → Interlingua: rege
• → Italian: rege
• → Romanian: rege
• → ? Sicilian: reghi
• → ⇒ Translingual: Balaeniceps rex , Tyrannosaurus rex
• → Volapuk: reg

See also [ edit ]

Chess pieces in Latin · latruncul? , m?lit?s scacc?rum ( layout · text )
r?x	r?g?na	turris	sagittifer	eques	pedes

References [ edit ]

• “ rex ”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short ( 1879 ) A Latin Dictionary , Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ rex ”, in Charlton T. Lewis ( 1891 ) An Elementary Latin Dictionary , New York: Harper & Brothers
• rex in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Leopold Favre, 1883?1887)
• rex in Gaffiot, Felix ( 1934 ) Dictionnaire illustre latin-francais , Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden ( 1894 ) Latin Phrase-Book ‎ ^[1] , London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to establish some one as king, tyrant: aliquem regem, tyrannum constituere
    
  • to restore a king to his throne (not in solium ): regem restituere
    
  • (ambiguous) to belong to the king's bodyguard: a latere regis esse
    
• “ rex ”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor ( 1898 ), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities , New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ rex ”, in William Smith et al., editor ( 1890 ), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities , London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Northern Kurdish [ edit ]

Etymology [ edit ]

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Pronunciation [ edit ]

Noun [ edit ]

rex   ?

1. side