A real inflected case form that exposes g between vowels. It is a paradigm sibling used to reveal the stem, not the historical ancestor of the nominative.
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.
MEANING
Both forms mean king in different grammatical cases; no semantic ancestry runs from one case form to the other.
CHRONOLOGY
Synchronic Latin morphology illuminated by historical sound change.
SCHOLAR
Norvin W. Richards · Charlton T. Lewis · Charles Short
CONFIDENCE
established — The edge is a navigational paradigm relation, not a claim that genitive rēgis historically produced nominative rēx.
This is the complete downstream closure currently supported by the canonical graph. Every displayed step is a real reviewed edge with its own sound claim, meaning claim, scholar, confidence, and citations.
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.
MEANING
Both forms mean king in different grammatical cases; no semantic ancestry runs from one case form to the other.
Norvin W. Richards · Charlton T. Lewis · Charles Short2 CITATIONSEDGE 1038 ↗
“Every” means every descendant in the reviewed SET-U graph. It does not convert missing scholarship or missing ingestion into a claim of historical completeness. The coverage ledger remains the honest denominator.