# rex
## English
### Etymology

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

#### Derived terms

* Cornish Rex
* Devon Rex
* German Rex
* Oregon Rex
* Selkirk Rex

### Verb

rex (third-person singular simple present rexes, present participle rexing, simple past and past participle rexed)
* (transitive) To breed (an animal) to have this kind of hair.

### Related terms

* Bantersaurus Rex
* Rex
* rex sacrorum
* T. rex
* Tyrannosaurus rex

### See also

* rex-pat

### Anagrams

* Ex'r, Xer, xer-

## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈreːks/, [ˈreːks̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈreks/, [ˈrɛks]

### Noun

rēx m (genitive rēgis, feminine rēgīna); third declension
* king, ruler
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.544–545:“Rēx erat Aenēās nōbīs quō iūstior alter nec pietāte fuit nec bellō maior et armīs.”“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: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."
* (derogatory) despot, tyrant (during the time of the Republic when there were no kings and executive power was usually divided)
* (Late Latin, chess) king

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.
* Rēcei is an early form of rēgī.

#### Derived terms

* rēgis fīlia
* rēgis puella
* rēgnum
* rēgulus
* typographus Rēgis

#### Related terms

* rēgālis
* rēgia
* rēgīna
* rēgnō
* regō
* rēgulus

#### Descendants

* Dalmatian:
** ra
* Italo-Romance:
** Corsican: rè
** Italian: re
*** → Maltese: re
** Neapolitan: rré
** Sicilian: re, reji
* North Italian:
** Gallo-Italic:
*** Emilian: rà
*** Old Lombard: rex
**** Lombard: rè, re
*** Piedmontese: rèj
** Friulian: re
** Ladin: re
** Ligurian: re
** Romansch: retg, raig, rai
** Venetan: re
* Gallo-Romance:
** Franco-Provençal: rê
** Old French: roi, rex, rei, rai, roy
*** Middle French: roy
**** French: roi, roy (obsolete) (pre-1800)
***** Antillean Creole: wa
***** Guianese Creole: rwè
***** Haitian Creole: wa
****** (perhaps) ⇒ Haitian Creole: lwa
******* → English: loa
***** Karipúna Creole French: hué
***** Louisiana Creole: rwa
***** Seychellois Creole: lerwa
*** Norman:
    Continental Normandy: rai, ré, rey
    Guernsey: ré, roué
    Jersey: rouai
    Sark: rwe
*** Walloon: roy, rwè
*** → Middle English: roy, roye
**** English: roy
* Occitano-Romance:
** Old Catalan: rei, rey
*** Catalan: rei
** Old Occitan: rei
*** Occitan: rei, rèi
* 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: reĝo
* → Koine Greek: ῥήξ (rhḗx)
** → Greek: ρήγας (rígas)
*** → Albanian: rig
*** → Romanian: rigă
* → Ido: rejo
* → Interlingua: rege
* → Italian: rege
* → Romanian: rege
* →? Sicilian: reghi
* →⇒ Translingual: Balaeniceps rex, Tyrannosaurus rex
* → Volapük: reg

### See also

Chess pieces in Latin · latrunculī, mīlitēs scaccōrum (layout · text) :
| 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, 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

## Lombard
### Etymology

From Latin rēx.

### Pronunciation

* (Old Lombard) IPA: [ˈɾɛʒ]

### Noun

rex m (feminine regina)
* (Old Lombard) king

## Northern Kurdish
### Etymology

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### Pronunciation

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### Noun

rex ?
* side