rex

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English

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Etymology

From the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin rēx (“king”), referring originally to rabbits of King Albert of Belgium. Entered English around 1920.

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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Anagrams

Kurdish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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  1. side

Latin

Etymology

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

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

Pronunciation

Noun

rēx m (genitive rēgis); third declension

  1. king, ruler
    • 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:
      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. (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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Descendants

  • → Basque: errege
  • Corsican: rè
  • Dalmatian: ra
  • → English: rex
  • Emilian: rà
  • → Esperanto: reĝo
  • Franco-Provençal: rê
  • Friulian: re

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See also

Chess pieces in Latin · latrunculī, mīlitēs scaccōrum (layout · text)
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rēx rēgīna turris sagittifer 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[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
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