regnum
English
Etymology
From Latin rēgnum (“kingdom”). Doublet of reign.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹɛɡ.nəm/
Noun
regnum (plural regnums or regna)
- (biology, taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below dominium and above divisio.
- Synonym: kingdom
- A badge of royalty, especially the early form of the pope's tiara.
Anagrams
- Munger
Latin
Etymology
From rēx (“king”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈreːɡ.num/, [ˈreːŋnʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈreɲ.ɲum/, [ˈrɛɲːum]
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Noun
rēgnum n (genitive rēgnī); second declension
- royal power, power, control, kingdom, reign
- Sum sine rēgnō. ― I am without a kingdom.
- kingship, royalty
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.461-462:
- ‘quī modo, sī volucrēs habuissem rēgna iubentēs,
in populō potuī maximus esse meō’- “I who just now, if I would have had the bird-omens ordaining kingship, I might have been able to be the greatest among my people.”
(The ghost of Remus laments how the auspices or bird-omens instead favored his brother Romulus to be king; see Romulus and Remus.)
- “I who just now, if I would have had the bird-omens ordaining kingship, I might have been able to be the greatest among my people.”
- ‘quī modo, sī volucrēs habuissem rēgna iubentēs,
- in a negative sense: despotism, tyranny, aspiring to or seeking the throne or royal power during the Roman Republic
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.189-190:
- vīxit, ut occīderet damnātus crīmine rēgnī:
hunc illī titulum longa senecta dabat.- He lived, that he might die, having been condemned in the crime of [aspiring to] royal power: This [is] the title that was given him in old age.
(See: Marcus Manlius Capitolinus.)
- He lived, that he might die, having been condemned in the crime of [aspiring to] royal power: This [is] the title that was given him in old age.
- vīxit, ut occīderet damnātus crīmine rēgnī:
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | rēgnum | rēgna |
| Genitive | rēgnī | rēgnōrum |
| Dative | rēgnō | rēgnīs |
| Accusative | rēgnum | rēgna |
| Ablative | rēgnō | rēgnīs |
| Vocative | rēgnum | rēgna |
Derived terms
- rēgnō
- vicerēgnum
Descendants
- Asturian: reinu
- Catalan: regne
- Dalmatian: raigno
- French: règne
- → English: reign
- Friulian: regn
- Italian: regno
- Ligurian: régno
- Old Portuguese: reino
- Fala: reinu
- Galician: reino
- Portuguese: reino
- Piedmontese: regn
- Sicilian: regnu
- Sardinian: regnu, arregnu, rennu
- Spanish: reino
- Translingual: Regnum
References
- “regnum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “regnum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- regnum 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)
- regnum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to take upon oneself absolute power: imperium, regnum, tyrannidem occupare
- to aspire to the sovereignty: regnum appetere (B. G. 7. 4)
- to obtain the sovereignty, kingly office: regnum adipisci
- to invest some one with royal power: alicui regnum deferre, tradere
- to restore a king to his throne (not in solium): aliquem in regnum restituere
- (ambiguous) to depose a king: aliquem regno spoliare or expellere (Div. 1. 22. 74)
- to take upon oneself absolute power: imperium, regnum, tyrannidem occupare
- “regnum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly