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11-letter words (1 found)

INTERREGNUM,

9-letter words (5 found)

INTERMURE,INUREMENT,NEUTERING,RERENTING,RETURNING,

8-letter words (12 found)

ENTERING,GENITURE,MERINGUE,METERING,MUTINEER,REGIMENT,RETUNING,REUNITER,TENURING,TERMINER,UNERRING,UNRETIRE,

7-letter words (53 found)

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6-letter words (102 found)

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5-letter words (90 found)

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4-letter words (112 found)

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3-letter words (78 found)

EEN,EME,EMU,ENE,ENG,ERE,ERG,ERM,ERN,ERR,GEE,GEM,GEN,GER,GET,GIE,GIN,GIT,GNU,GRR,GUE,GUM,GUN,GUR,GUT,ING,INN,IRE,MEE,MEG,MEN,MET,MEU,MIG,MIR,MUG,MUN,MUT,NEE,NEG,NET,NIE,NIM,NIT,NUG,NUN,NUR,NUT,REE,REG,REI,REM,REN,RET,RIG,RIM,RIN,RIT,RUE,RUG,RUM,RUN,RUT,TEE,TEG,TEN,TIE,TIG,TIN,TUG,TUI,TUM,TUN,UME,UNI,URE,URN,UTE,

2-letter words (22 found)

EE,EM,EN,ER,ET,GI,GU,IN,IT,ME,MI,MU,NE,NU,RE,TE,TI,UG,UM,UN,UR,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 476 words from interregnum according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of interregnum

interregnum

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin interrēgnum.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˌɪntəɹˈɹɛɡnəm/

Noun

interregnum (plural interregnums or interregna)

  1. The period of time between the end of a sovereign's reign and the accession of another sovereign.
  2. (politics) A period of time during which normal executive leadership is suspended or interrupted.
  3. (by extension) An intermission in any order of succession; any breach of continuity in action or influence.

Synonyms

  • (breach of continuity in action): hiatus, moratorium, recess; see also Thesaurus:pause

Derived terms

  • interregnal

Translations

See also

  • regency

References

  • “interregnum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “interregnum”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Latin

Etymology

From inter- (“between”) +‎ rēgnum (“reign”), corresponding to interrēx.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /in.terˈreːɡ.num/, [ɪn̪t̪ɛrˈreːŋnʊ̃ˑ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /in.terˈreɲ.ɲum/, [in̪t̪erˈrɛɲːum]

Noun

interrēgnum n (genitive interrēgnī); second declension

  1. interregnum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

  • → Catalan: interregne
  • → English: interregnum
  • → French: interrègne
    • → English: interreign
  • → German: Interregnum
  • → Italian: interregno
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: interregno
  • → Portuguese: interregno
  • → Spanish: interregno

References

  • “interregnum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “interregnum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • interregnum 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)
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “interregnum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

interregnum n (definite singular interregnumet or interregnet, indefinite plural interregna or interregner, definite plural interregnaene or interregna or interregnene)

  1. an interregnum

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

interregnum n (definite singular interregnumet, indefinite plural interregnum, definite plural interregnuma)

  1. an interregnum

Inflection

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin interrēgnum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /in.tɛrˈrɛɡ.num/
  • Rhymes: -ɛɡnum
  • Syllabification: in‧ter‧reg‧num

Noun

interregnum n

  1. interregnum (period of time between the end of a sovereign's reign and the accession of another sovereign)
    Synonyms: bezkrólewie, międzykrólewie
  2. interregnum (period of time during which normal executive leadership is suspended or interrupted)
    Synonym: bezkrólewie
  3. (Ancient Rome, historical) interregnum (period of time between consuls' terms of office)

Declension

Further reading

  • interregnum in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • interregnum in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • interregnum in PWN's encyclopedia

Source: wiktionary.org