regent

See also: Regent and régent

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman regent, Middle French regent, and their source, Latin regēns (“ruling; ruler, governor, prince”), present participle of regō (“I govern, I steer”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹiːdʒənt/

Noun

regent (plural regents)

  1. (now rare) A ruler. [from 15th c.]
  2. One who rules in place of the monarch, especially because the monarch is too young, absent, or disabled. [from 15th c.]
  3. (now chiefly historical) A member of a municipal or civic body of governors, especially in certain European cities. [from 16th c.]
    • 1999, Philipp Blom, translating Geert Mak, Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City, Vintage 2001, p. 139:
      This perception, however, does no justice to the regents of the city of Amsterdam.
  4. (Canada, US) A member of governing board of a college or university; also a governor of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC. [from 18th c.]
  5. (Indonesia) The chief executive of a regency

Translations

Adjective

regent (comparative more regent, superlative most regent)

  1. Ruling; governing; regnant.
    • Sir M. Hale
      Some other active regent principle […] which we call the soul.
  2. Exercising vicarious authority.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)

Further reading

  • regent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • regent in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

Catalan

Adjective

regent (feminine regenta, masculine plural regents, feminine plural regentes)

  1. regent, governing

Noun

regent m (plural regents)

  1. regent

Danish

Noun

regent c (singular definite regenten, plural indefinite regenter)

  1. (politics) a monarch, a regent (one who rules)

Dutch

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈreːɣənt/
  • Audio(file)

Verb

regent

  1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of regenen
  2. (archaic) plural imperative of regenen

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rəˈɣɛnt/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

regent m (plural regenten, diminutive regentje n, feminine regentes)

  1. regent

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

regent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of regō

Middle French

Etymology

Old French regent, see below.

Noun

regent m (plural regens)

  1. regent

Descendants

References

  • regent on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330-1500) (in French)

Old French

Etymology

Latin regēns (“ruling, as a noun, a ruler, governor, prince”); present participle of regō (“I govern, I steer”).

Noun

regent m (oblique plural regens, nominative singular regens, nominative plural regent)

  1. regent (one who reigns in the absence of a monarch)

Declension

Descendants

Swedish

Noun

regent c

  1. a monarch or a regent, one who rules

Declension

Declension of regent 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative regent regenten regenter regenterna
Genitive regents regentens regenters regenternas
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