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rēx — Lewis and Short Latin Dictionary
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Charlton T. Lewis · Charles Short · Scaife ATLAS Editors
- YEAR
- 1879
- PUBLISHER
- Tufts University Scaife ATLAS
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- scholarly lexicon
- EXTERNAL RECORD
- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
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CONTRARIAN TRUTH CLAIMS
RANKED REVEALS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
RANK 19GRADE Asupports
The x of rēx is a whole nominative sound change in one letter.
Latin starts from the bound stem rēg-, adds nominative -s, devoices g to k, and writes the resulting /ks/ as x. Genitive rēgis makes the stem visible—but it is a sibling case form, not an ancestor.
*h₃reg̑-
*h₃reg̑- → *h₃reg- → *rēg- → rēg- → rēgis → rēx
Headword rēx, rēgis, masculineSupplies the paired lexical citation and the noun’s attested semantic range.
rēx dossier ↗truth record ↗89UNVEILING
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SCHOLARLY DISAGREEMENT
DISPUTE POSITIONS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
resolvedcontextestablished
Is the x of rēx an inherited single stem consonant?
No. In the Latin nominative, stem rēg- combines with -s; g devoices to k before s and the /ks/ cluster is spelled x. The genitive rēgis preserves visible g.
Headword rēx, rēgis, masculineShows the visible x/g alternation inside the lexical citation form.
resolvedsupportsestablished
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.
Headword rēx, rēgis, masculineCites nominative and genitive as one noun.
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CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP CLAIMS
EDGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
EDGE 1038contextestablished
rēx → rēgis
Latin → Latin · inflection
- SOUND
- 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.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Norvin W. Richards · Charlton T. Lewis · Charles Short
Headword rēx, rēgis, masculineSupplies the paired nominative and genitive forms and their shared lexical identity.
EDGE 1039contextestablished
rēgis → rēg-
Latin → Latin · inflection
- SOUND
- Removing the genitive singular ending -is from rēgis exposes the bound stem rēg-.
- MEANING
- The stem retains the king meaning across the inflectional paradigm.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Norvin W. Richards · Charlton T. Lewis · Charles Short
Headword rēx, rēgis, masculineLexicographically exposes the genitive form used to identify the stem.
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LEXICAL ATTESTATIONS
WITNESSES REPORTED BY THIS SOURCE
rēxSOURCE-REPORTED
rēx
Lewis and Short lexical record for rēx
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COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE
COGNATES, DESCENDANTS, AND RELATIVES
No comparative-relative record currently cites this source.
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GEOGRAPHIC AND TEMPORAL CLAIMS
JOURNEY STAGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
stage 2context
Latin linguistic world
Supplies the Latin lexical identity and inflected citation form.
Headword rēx, rēgis, masculine · broad071
NON-GENEALOGICAL CONNECTIONS
HISTORICAL CONTEXT, KEPT SEPARATE
semantic equivalents distinct ancestrycontext
SAME TITLE, TWO DIFFERENT GENEALOGIES
English king is inherited from the Germanic kin-lineage formation *kuninga-. Latin rēx descends from the straight, direct, and rule root. Historical translation makes them semantic equivalents; it does not place one word inside the other’s family tree.
Rosemarie Lühr · Calvert Watkins and American Heritage Dictionary Editors · Lewis and Short · established082
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DOSSIERS THAT DEPEND ON THIS SOURCE
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