Nominative rēx and genitive rēgis belong to one paradigm: stem-final g before nominative -s devoices to k, and Latin writes the resulting /ks/ cluster as x; intervocalic g remains visible in rēgis.
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COVERAGE LEDGER ↗EDGE / 1038inflectionestablished
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rēx
king
OPEN NODE 757 ↗DESCENDS FROM→
PARENT / EARLIER FORM / attestedLatin · Latin antiquity · king genitiverēgis
of a king; genitive singular of rēx
OPEN NODE 1041 ↗01
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Both forms mean king in different grammatical cases; no semantic ancestry runs from one case form to the other.
Synchronic Latin morphology illuminated by historical sound change.
Norvin W. Richards · Charlton T. Lewis · Charles Short
established — The edge is a navigational paradigm relation, not a claim that genitive rēgis historically produced nominative rēx.
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rēx — Lewis and Short Latin DictionaryHeadword rēx, rēgis, masculine
contextAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Supplies the paired nominative and genitive forms and their shared lexical identity.
Lecture 23: Historical Linguistics — Latin rēx, rēgis, and sound changeLecture slides 74–78; transcript, pp. 15–16
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Derives nominative rēx from stem reg- plus -s, explains devoicing of g, and identifies x as the spelling of /ks/.
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