regius Latin · revision 7200

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Livius Andronicus|origins=la rēx}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈreː.ɡi.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈrɛː.d͡ʒi.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''rēgius''' (feminine rēgia, neuter rēgium); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from the stem ⟨rēg-⟩ of [[rēx]] “king” with the suffix [[-ius]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Livius Andronicus, of what belongs to a king.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates him 280/260–before 200 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant of a king, royal, as Cicero's ''genus rēgium'' “royal race”, and in Livy ''rēgiī'' the king's men.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It meant done by a king, of royal blood, and of government monarchic, as Cicero's ''rēgia potestās'', and ''nōmen rēgium'' the title of king, as in Caesar.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) In a good sense it meant kingly, in a bad one despotic, and in Plautus princely, splendid.^(OLD 2012) It appears in names of creatures and plants, and ''morbus rēgius'' in Horace was jaundice; it is also in town names such as Hippo Regius.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Döderlein explains that ''rēgius'' is what belongs to or descends from a king, ''rēgālis'' what befits a king.^(Döderlein 1874)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant royal.^(Stelten 1995) In Medieval Latin a ''homō rēgius'' was a person freed by the king's intervention.^(Niermeyer 1976) [[en|regius]] is a learned borrowing.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 280/260–before 200 BC – Livius Andronicus has the word.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of the splendid.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses ''genus rēgium'' and ''rēgia potestās''.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses ''morbus rēgius''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of a king, [[m|en|royal]], ''rēgiī'', the king's men.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Done by a king; of royal blood.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Monarchic, ''nōmen rēgium'', the title of king.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Kingly; despotic.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Princely, splendid.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''morbus rēgius'', [[m|en|jaundice]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[rēgia]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[rēx]]

+ * [[rēgālis]]

+ * [[en|regius]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}