regent

See also: Regent and régent

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman regent, Middle French regent, and their source, Latin regēns (“ruling; ruler, governor, prince”), present participle of regō (“I govern, I steer”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːdʒənt/

Noun

regent (plural regents)

1. (now rare) A ruler. [from 15th c.]
2. One who rules in place of the monarch, especially because the monarch is too young, absent, or disabled. [from 15th c.]
3. (now chiefly historical) A member of a municipal or civic body of governors, especially in certain European cities. [from 16th c.]
   • 1999, Philipp Blom, translating Geert Mak, Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City, Vintage 2001, p. 139:

     This perception, however, does no justice to the regents of the city of Amsterdam.

4. (Canada, US) A member of governing board of a college or university; also a governor of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC. [from 18th c.]
5. (Indonesia) The chief executive of a regency

Related terms

Terms related to regent

• rectangle
• rectilinear
• rector

• rectum
• regental
• regentship

• régime
• regimen

• regiment
• region

Translations

one who rules in place of the monarch

• Armenian: ռեգենտ (hy) (ṙegent), գահի խնամակալ (gahi xnamakal)
• Basque: erregeorde
• Bulgarian: регент m (regent)
• Catalan: regent (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 攝政王 (zh), 摄政王 (zh) (shèzhèngwáng)

• Czech: regent m, vladař (cs) m
• Danish: regent (da)
• Dutch: regent (nl) m
• Esperanto: reganto
• Estonian: regent (et)
• Finnish: valtionhoitaja (fi), sijaishallitsija
• French: régent (fr) m, régente (fr) f
• Galician: rexente m, f
• German: Regent (de) m, Regentin f
• Greek: αντιβασιλέας (el) m (antivasiléas)
• Hungarian: régens (hu)
• Ido: regento (io)
• Indonesian: bupati (id), wali (id)
• Irish: leasrí m
• Italian: reggente (it) m, f
• Japanese: 摂政 (ja) (せつしょう, setsushō)
• Kannada: ಮಾರಾಳ್ಮ (kn) (mārāḷma)
• Khmer: រាជានុសិទ្ធិ (rie chienu’ səttʰi’)
• Korean: 섭정 (ko) (seopjeong)

• Latvian: reģents m, regente f
• Lithuanian: regentas m, regentė f
• Manx: lhiass-ree m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: regent m

  Nynorsk: regent m

• Persian: نایب‌السلطنه‎‎
• Polish: regent (pl) m, regentka (pl) f
• Portuguese: regente (pt) m, f
• Romanian: regent (ro) m
• Russian: ре́гент (ru) m (régent)
• Scottish Gaelic: eadar-thriath m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: регент m

  Roman: regent (sh) m

• Slovak: regent m
• Slovene: regent m
• Spanish: regente (es) m, f
• Sundanese: dalem
• Swedish: regent (sv) c
• Tagalog: rehente
• Thai: ผู้สำเร็จราชการแทนพระองค์ (pûu-sǎm-rèt-râat-chá-gaan-tɛɛn-prá-ong)
• Turkish: naip (tr)
• Ukrainian: ре́гент m (réhent)

Adjective

regent (comparative more regent, superlative most regent)

1. Ruling; governing; regnant.
   • Sir M. Hale

     Some other active regent principle […] which we call the soul.

2. Exercising vicarious authority.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)

Further reading

• regent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• regent in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• gerent

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Catalan

Adjective

regent (feminine regenta, masculine plural regents, feminine plural regentes)

1. regent, governing

Noun

regent m (plural regents)

1. regent

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Danish

Noun

regent c (singular definite regenten, plural indefinite regenter)

1. (politics) a monarch, a regent (one who rules)

Related terms

• regere
• regering

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Dutch

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈreːɣənt/

• Audio

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Verb

regent

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of regenen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of regenen

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rəˈɣɛnt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

regent m (plural regenten, diminutive regentje n, feminine regentes)

1. regent

Anagrams

• tenger

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Latin

Verb

regent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of regō

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Middle French

Etymology

Old French regent, see below.

Noun

regent m (plural regens)

1. regent

Descendants

• English: regent (borrowed)
• French: régent

References

• regent on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500) (in French)

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Old French

Etymology

Latin regēns (“ruling, as a noun, a ruler, governor, prince”); present participle of regō (“I govern, I steer”).

Noun

regent m (oblique plural regens, nominative singular regens, nominative plural regent)

1. regent (one who reigns in the absence of a monarch)

Declension

  Declension of regent  

Number	Case	Masculine	Feminine
Singular	Subject	regens, regenz	regente
	Oblique	regent	regente
Plural	Subject	regent	regentes
	Oblique	regens, regenz	regentes

Descendants

• English: regent (borrowed)

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Swedish

Noun

regent c

1. a monarch or a regent, one who rules

Declension

Declension of regent
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	regent	regenten	regenter	regenterna
Genitive	regents	regentens	regenters	regenternas