English

Proper noun

Rex

1. (formal, usually italicized) The reigning king.
2. A male given name coined in the nineteenth century from Latin rex "king", rarely bestowed on children today.
3. A popular name for a dog.

See also

• Fido
• Rover
• Appendix:Names for animals

Anagrams

• Xer

English

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.

Anagrams

• Xer

Faliscan

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs ‎(“ruler, king”). Cognate with Latin rēx.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈreːks/

Noun

rēx m

1. king

Kurdish

Noun

rex ?

1. side

Latin

Etymology

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

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /reːks/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /reks/

Noun

rēx m ‎(genitive rēgis); third declension

1. king, ruler
   • 405, Jerome and others, Vulgate, Daniel 1:1

     anno tertio regni Ioachim regis Iuda venit Nabuchodonosor rex Babylonis Hierusalem et obsedit 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

Inflection

Third declension.

Derived terms

• rēgnum

Related terms

Descendants

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “rex”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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