rex

From the Latin rēx (“king”), referring originally to rabbits of King Albert of Belgium. Entered English around 1920.

rex (plural rexes)

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

• Cornish Rex
• Devon Rex
• German Rex
• Oregon Rex
• Selkirk Rex

• Ex'r, Xer, xer-

rex ?

1. side

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)

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

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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

Third declension.

• rēgīna

• rēgnum
• rēgulus

• 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)
• 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