regius

Learned borrowing from Latin rēgius, from rēx, rēgis (“a king”).^[1] Doublet of regious.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹid͡ʒiəs/, /ˈɹid͡ʒəs/
• Homophone: regious

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

• guiser

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈreː.ɡi.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈrɛː.d͡ʒi.us]

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

1. kingly, regal, royal (of or pertaining to a king)

   Synonym: rēgālis

2. magnificent, splendid, distinguished (worthy of a king)

First/second-declension adjective.

• → Catalan: regi (learned)
• → English: regious, regius (learned)
• → Italian: regio (learned)
• → Portuguese: régio (learned)
• → Spanish: regio (learned)

• “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^[1], 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)