You can make 5 words from rex according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
All 3 letters words made out of rex
rex erx rxe xre exr xer
Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word rex. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in rex.
Definitions and meaning of rex
rex
Etymology
From the Latinrēx(“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.
Noun
rex (pluralrexes)
An animal which has a genetic recessive variation that causes the guard hairs to be very short or fully lacking.
Derived terms
Cornish Rex
Devon Rex
German Rex
Oregon Rex
Selkirk Rex
Related terms
Rex
See also
Anagrams
Ex'r, Xer, xer-
Latin
Alternative forms
℞
Etymology
From Proto-Italic*rēks, from Proto-Indo-European*h₃rḗǵs(“ruler, king”). Cognates include Sanskritराजन्(rā́jan, “king”) and Old Irishrí(“king”).
(derogatory) despot, tyrant (during the time of the Republic when there were no kings and executive power was usually divided)
(Late Latin, chess) king
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Rēcei is an early form of rēgī.
Coordinate terms
rēgīna
Derived terms
rēgnum
rēgulus
rēgis fīlia, rēgis puella(“princess”)
typographus Rēgis
Related terms
Descendants
Dalmatian:
ra
Italo-Romance:
Corsican: rè
Italian: re
→ Maltese: re
Neapolitan: rré
Sicilian: re, reji
North Italian:
Gallo-Italic:
Emilian: rà
Lombard: re
Piedmontese: rèj
Friulian: re
Ladin: re
Ligurian: re
Romansch: retg, raig, rai
Venetian: re
Gallo-Romance:
Franco-Provençal: rê
Old French: roi, rex; rei; rai; roy
Middle French: roy
French: roi, roy(obsolete)
Antillean Creole: wa
Guianese Creole: rwè
Haitian Creole: wa
(perhaps)⇒ Haitian Creole: lwa
→ English: loa
Karipúna Creole French: hué
Louisiana Creole: rwa
Seychellois Creole: lerwa
Norman:
Continental Normandy: rai, ré, rey
Guernsey: ré, roué
Jersey: rouai
Sark: rwe
Walloon: roy, rwè
→ Middle Breton: roe
Breton: roue
→ Middle Cornish: ruy
Cornish: ruw
→ Middle English: roy, roye
English: roy
Occitano-Romance:
Old Catalan: rei, rey
Catalan: rei
Old Occitan: rei
Occitan: rei, rèi
Ibero-Romance:
Navarro-Aragonese: rei, rey
Aragonese: rei
Old Leonese: rei, rey, re
Asturian: rei, reye
Leonese: rei
Mirandese: rei
Old Galician-Portuguese: rei
Fala: rei
Galician: rei
Portuguese: rei (see there for further descendants)
Old Spanish: rey
Ladino: rey
Spanish: rey
Chavacano: rey
Papiamentu: rey
→ Interlingue: rey
→ San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo: rey
Insular Romance:
Sardinian: re, rei
Borrowings:
→ Albanian: regj
→ Basque: errege
→ English: rex, Rex
→ Esperanto: reĝo
→ Greek: ρήγας(rígas)
→ Albanian: rig
→ Romanian: rigă
→ Ido: rejo
→ Interlingua: rege
→ Italian: rege
→ Novial: reg-
→ Romanian: rege
→? Sicilian: reghi
→⇒ Translingual: Balaeniceps rex, Tyrannosaurus rex
→ Volapük: reg
See also
References
“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.
“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
Northern Kurdish
Etymology
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