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From the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin rēx (“king”), referring originally to rabbits of the Belgian "castorrex" breed, so named because their fur was similar to that of beavers. Entered English around 1920. Doublet of rajah and roy.

rex (plural rexes)

1. An animal which has a genetic recessive variation that causes the guard hairs to be very short or fully lacking.

• Cornish Rex
• Devon Rex
• German Rex
• Oregon Rex
• Selkirk Rex

• Rex

• Ex'r, Xer, xer-

From Proto-Italic *rēks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”). Cognates include Sanskrit राजन् (rā́jan, “king”) and Old Irish rí (“king”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /reːks/, [reːks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /reks/, [rɛks]

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rēx m (genitive rēgis); third declension

1. king, ruler
   • Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, Danihelis 1:1:

     annō tertiō rēgnī Ioachim rēgis Iuda vēnit Nabuchodonosor rēx Babylōnis Hierūsalēm et obsēdit eam

     "In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it."

2. (derogatory) despot, tyrant (during the time of the Republic when there were no kings and executive power was usually divided)
3. (Late Latin, chess) king

Third-declension noun.

• rēgīna

• rēgnum
• rēgulus
• rēgis fīlia, rēgis puella (“princess”)

Chess pieces in Latin · latrunculī, mīlitēs scaccōrum (layout · text)
rēx	rēgīna	turris	sagittifer	eques	pedes

• “rex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rex 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)
• rex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to establish some one as king, tyrant: aliquem regem, tyrannum constituere
    
  • to restore a king to his throne (not in solium): regem restituere
    
  • (ambiguous) to belong to the king's bodyguard: a latere regis esse
    
• “rex”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “rex”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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