interregnum

See also: Interregnum

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin inter- "between" + the accusative of regnum (which is regnum) meaning "reign", "power" or "kingdom". Literally meaning "between reign" or "between kingdom".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪntəɹˈɹɛɡnəm/

Noun

interregnum (plural interregnums or interregna)

1. The period of time between the end of a sovereign's reign and the accession of another sovereign.

   The Sasanian Interregnum of 628-632

2. A period of time during which normal executive leadership is suspended or interrupted.
3. An intermission in any order of succession; any breach of continuity in action or influence.
   • 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XIV, page 179:

     This was in that strange pause of the storm which is its most remarkable feature in the South—that singular interregnum of the winds, when, after giving repeated notice of their most terrific action, they seem almost to forget their purpose, and for a few moments appear to slumber in their inactivity.

Derived terms

• interregnal

Translations

period of time between the end of a sovereign's reign and the accession of another sovereign

• Bulgarian: междуцарствие n (mežducarstvie)
• Catalan: interregne m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: interregnum
• French: interrègne (fr) m
• German: Interregnum (de) n
• Italian: interregno m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: bezkrólewie (pl) n
• Portuguese: interregno (pt) m
• Russian: междуца́рствие (ru) n (mežducárstvije)
• Scottish Gaelic: eadar-riaghladh m, eadar-rìoghachd f
• Serbo-Croatian: interregnum (sh) m, međuvlašće (sh) n
• Spanish: interregno m

period of time during which normal executive leadership is suspended or interrupted

• Bulgarian: безвластие (bg) n (bezvlastie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: hallituspula
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Serbo-Croatian: interregnum (sh) m, međuvlašće (sh) n

intermission in any order of succession; any breach of continuity in action or influence

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: välitila, epäjatkuvuus
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Pause (de) f, Unterbrechung (de) f
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Serbo-Croatian: interregnum (sh) m, međuvlašće (sh) n

References

• “interregnum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “interregnum”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /in.terˈreːɡ.num/, [ɪn̪t̪ɛrˈreːŋnʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.terˈreɲ.ɲum/, [in̪t̪erˈrɛɲːum]

Noun

interrēgnum n (genitive interrēgnī); second declension

1. interregnum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	interrēgnum	interrēgna
Genitive	interrēgnī	interrēgnōrum
Dative	interrēgnō	interrēgnīs
Accusative	interrēgnum	interrēgna
Ablative	interrēgnō	interrēgnīs
Vocative	interrēgnum	interrēgna

Descendants

• Catalan: interregne
• Italian: interregno
• Portuguese: interregno
• Spanish: interregno

References

• “interregnum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “interregnum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• interregnum 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)
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • things seem tending towards an interregnum: res fluit ad interregnum
    
  • an interregnum ensues: res ad interregnum venit or adducitur
    
• “interregnum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers