regnum
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin rēgnum (“kingdom”). Doublet of reign.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From rēx (“king”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈreːɡ.num/, [ˈreːŋnʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈreɲ.ɲum/, [ˈrɛɲːum]
Audio (Classical Latin, educated guess): (file)
Noun
[edit]rēgnum n (genitive rēgnī); second declension
- royal power, power, control, reign
- kingdom, realm, throne
- 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
[edit]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
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “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[1], 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
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