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Did genitive rēgis historically produce nominative rēx?

No. Rēx and rēgis are inflected forms in one paradigm. The graph uses the genitive to expose the stem, not as a chronological parent word.

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rēx

/reːks/ · noun

The Latin third-declension noun for a king, ruler, chief, or leader, cited as rēx, rēgis and built on the bound stem rēg-.

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SOURCE 01supportsscholarly reference

Lecture 23: Historical Linguistics — Latin rēx, rēgis, and sound change

Explains both surface forms from one stem rather than one case from the other.

Lecture slides 75–77; transcript, p. 16

AUTHOR / EDITOR: Norvin W. Richards
YEAR: 2022
PUBLISHER: MIT OpenCourseWare

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SOURCE 02supportsscholarly lexicon

rēx — Lewis and Short Latin Dictionary

Cites nominative and genitive as one noun.

Headword rēx, rēgis, masculine

AUTHOR / EDITOR: Charlton T. Lewis · Charles Short · Scaife ATLAS Editors
YEAR: 1879
PUBLISHER: Tufts University Scaife ATLAS

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CONFIDENCE: established
STATUS: resolved
LEGACY SOURCE SUMMARY: Lewis and Short cite rēx, rēgis together; MIT explains both from the same rēg- stem.

RESOLUTION NOTE

The edge is typed inflection and its chronology note explicitly denies case-to-case ancestry.

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