regnator Latin · revision 33635

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 235–200 BC, Naevius|origins=ine-pro *h₃rēǵ-s}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''rēgnātor''' ''m'' (genitive rēgnātōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ The TLL finds no plural, except in one restored passage.^(TLL)

+ Charisius sets a feminine ''rēgnātrīx'' beside it.^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|rēgnō|-tor|t1=to rule as king]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) De Vaan lists it among the derivatives of [[m|la|rēx|t=king]],^(de Vaan 2008) which he traces to [[itc-pro|*rēg-|t=king]] and [[ine-pro|*h₃rēǵ-s|t=ruler, king]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[sga|rí|t=king]] and [[sa|राज्|tr=rā́j-|t=king]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is first found in Naevius, who calls Neptune ruler of the seas, ''Neptunum regnatorem marum''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is one who rules as king, a lord;^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short call it poetic.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is often applied to gods: Plautus has the ruler of the gods, Virgil the ruler of high Olympus, and Seneca the ruler of the strait.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Tacitus has the god who rules over all, ''regnator omnium deus''.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also used of persons and things supreme in their kind, as Virgil's Tiber, the horned river, ruler of the waters, and Statius' Pindar, ruler of the lyric band.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Plautus uses it plainly of Agathocles, who was king in Sicily, and Martial of the owner of a small field.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Donatus notes that a king is sometimes called ''regnator'', sometimes ''dominus''.^(TLL) In Church Latin it is a ruler or governor.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 235–200 BC – Naevius, of Neptune.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus, of the ruler of the gods and of a king of Sicily.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of the ruler of Olympus and of the Tiber.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus, of the god who rules over all.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|ruler]], [[m|en|king]], lord, [[m|en|sovereign]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995) of gods, a ruler.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # One supreme in his kind;^(OLD 2012) an owner.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[rēgnō]]

+ * [[rēgnum]]

+ * [[rēx]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}