regius

From Latin rēgius, from rēx, rēgis (“a king”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹid͡ʒiəs/, /ˈɹid͡ʒəs/

regius (not comparable)

1. (rare outside set phrases such as those found below) Of or relating to a king; royal.

   regius professor, regius professorship

   regius chair

• regius professor

• “regius”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• guiser

Derived from the oblique stem reg- of rēx (“king, ruler”) +‎ -ius (adjective-forming derivational suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈreː.ɡi.us/, [ˈreːɡiʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.d͡ʒi.us/, [ˈrɛːd͡ʒius]

rēgius (feminine rēgia, neuter rēgium); first/second-declension adjective

1. Of or pertaining to a king; kingly, regal, royal.

   Synonym: rēgālis

2. Magnificent, splendid, distinguished, worthy of a king.

First/second-declension adjective.

• rēgia
• Cōdex Rēgius
• lex rēgia

• Catalan: regi
• English: regious
• Italian: regio
• Spanish: regio
• Portuguese: régio

• “regius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “regius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• regius 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)
• regius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • monarchy: imperium singulare, unius dominatus, regium imperium
    
  • to assume a despotic tone: regios spiritus sibi sumere
    
  • to destroy a despotism, tyranny: regios spiritus reprimere (Nep. Dion. 5. 5)