rex

See also: Rex

English

Etymology

From the Latin rēx (“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

rex (plural rexes)

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

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *rēks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”). Cognates include Sanskrit राजन् (rā́jan, “king”) and Old Irish rí (“king”).

Iācōbus Rēx Scōtōrum (James [V], King of the Scots)

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /reːks/, [reːks̠]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /reks/, [rɛks]
  • Audio (Classical)(file)

Noun

rēx m (genitive rēgis); third declension

  1. king, ruler
    • 405, Jerome and others, Vulgate, Daniel 1:1
      annō tertiō rēgnī Ioachim rēgis Iuda vēnit Nabuchodonosor rēx Babylōnis Hierūsalēm et obsēdit 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

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative rēx rēgēs
Genitive rēgis rēgum
Dative rēgī rēgibus
Accusative rēgem rēgēs
Ablative rēge rēgibus
Vocative rēx rēgēs

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Derived terms

Descendants
  • Dalmatian:
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Corsican: rè
    • Italian: re
      • → Maltese: re
    • Neapolitan: rré
    • Sicilian: re, reji
  • North Italian:
    • Gallo-Italic:
      • Emilian: rà
      • Lombard: re
      • Piedmontese: rèj
    • Friulian: re
    • Ladin: re
    • Ligurian: re
    • Romansch: retg, raig, rai
    • Venetian: re
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: rê
    • Old French: roi, rex; rei; rai; roy
      • Middle French: roy
        • French: roi, roy (obsolete)
          • Antillean Creole: wa
          • Guianese Creole: rwè
          • Haitian Creole: wa
            • (perhaps) ⇒ Haitian Creole: lwa
              • → English: loa
          • Karipúna Creole French: hué
          • Louisiana Creole French: rwa
          • Seychellois Creole: lerwa
      • Norman:
        Continental Normandy: rai, ré, rey
        Guernsey: ré, roué
        Jersey: rouai
        Sark: rwe
      • Walloon: roy, rwè
      • → Middle Breton: roe
      • → Middle Cornish: ruy
      • → Middle English: roy, roye
  • Occitano-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Navarro-Aragonese: rei, rey
    • Old Leonese: rei, rey, re
    • Old Portuguese: rei
      • Fala: rei
      • Galician: rei
      • Portuguese: rei (see there for further descendants)
    • Old Spanish: rey
      • Ladino: rey
      • Spanish: rey
        • Chavacano: rey
        • Papiamentu: rey
        • → Interlingue: rey
        • → San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo: rey
  • Insular Romance:

Borrowings:

See also
Chess pieces in Latin · latrunculi, milites scaccorum (layout · text)
rex regina turris episcopus eques pedes

References
  • “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 Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • rex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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

Etymology

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Noun

rex ?

  1. side
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