regent

See also: Regent and régent

English

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regent

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Middle English regent, 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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːd͡ʒənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

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, Geert Mak, translated by Philipp Blom, Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City, Vintage, published 2001, page 139:

     This perception, however, does no justice to the regents of the city of Amsterdam.

4. (Scotland, Canada, US) A member of governing board of a college or university; also a governor of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. [from 18th c.]
5. (Indonesia) The chief executive of a regency

Derived terms

• captain regent
• prince regent
• princess regent
• queen regent
• regent-bird

Related terms

• rectangle
• rectilinear
• rector
• rectum
• regency
• regental
• regentship
• régime
• regimen
• regiment
• region

Translations

one who rules in place of the monarch

Armenian: ռեգենտ (hy) (ṙegent), գահի խնամակալ (gahi xnamakal) Basque: erregeorde Bulgarian: регент m (regent) Catalan: regent (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 攝政王 / 摄政王 (zh) (shèzhèngwáng) Czech: regent (cs) m, vladař (cs) m Danish: regent (da) Dutch: regent (nl) m Esperanto: reganto Estonian: regent (et) Finnish: valtionhoitaja (fi), sijaishallitsija French: régent (fr) m, régente (fr) f Galician: rexente (gl) m or f German: Regent (de) m, Regentin (de) f Greek: αντιβασιλέας (el) m (antivasiléas) Ancient: μεσοβασιλεύς m (mesobasileús) Hungarian: régens (hu) Ido: regento (io) Indonesian: wali (id) Irish: leasrí m Italian: reggente (it) m or f Japanese: 摂政 (ja) (せっしょう, sesshō) Kannada: ಮಾರಾಳ್ಮ (kn) (mārāḷma) Khmer: រាជានុសិទ្ធិ (rie chienu’ səttʰi’) Korean: 섭정(攝政) (ko) (seopjeong) Latin: interrex m Latvian: reģents m, regente f Lithuanian: regentas m, regentė f Macedonian: намесник m (namesnik) Malay: pemangku raja, regen Manx: lhiass-ree m Norwegian: Bokmål: regent m Nynorsk: regent m Persian: نایب‌السلطنه Polish: regent (pl) m, regentka (pl) f Portuguese: regente (pt) m or f Romanian: regent (ro) m Russian: ре́гент (ru) m (régent) Scottish Gaelic: eadar-thriath m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: регент m Roman: regent (sh) m Slovak: regent m Slovene: regent m Spanish: regente (es) m or f, regidor (es) m Sundanese: dalem Swedish: regent (sv) c, riksföreståndare c Tagalog: rehente Thai: ผู้สำเร็จราชการแทนพระองค์ (pûu-sǎm-rèt-râat-chá-gaan-tɛɛn-prá-ong) Turkish: naip (tr) Ukrainian: ре́гент m (réhent)

Adjective

regent (comparative more regent, superlative most regent)

1. Ruling; governing; regnant.
   • a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:

     Some other active regent principle […] which we call the soul.

2. Exercising vicarious authority.
   • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     the regent powers

Further reading

• “regent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “regent”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Engert, gerent, Tenger, Genter

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin regentem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [rəˈʒen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [rəˈʒent]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [reˈd͡ʒent]
• Rhymes: -ent

Adjective

regent m or f (masculine and feminine plural regents)

1. regent, governing

Noun

regent m or f by sense (plural regents)

1. regent

Derived terms

• corregent.
• regentar

Related terms

• regència
• regir

Further reading

• “regent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from German Regent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɛɡɛnt]

Noun

regent m anim

1. regent (one who rules in place of the monarch)

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	regent	regenti
genitive	regenta	regentů
dative	regentovi, regentu	regentům
accusative	regenta	regenty
vocative	regente	regenti
locative	regentovi, regentu	regentech
instrumental	regentem	regenty

Declension of regent (hard masculine animate)

Related terms

• See režim

Further reading

• “regent”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “regent”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “regent”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Danish

Etymology

Via German Regent and French régent from Latin regēns, a present participle of the verb Latin regō (“to rule”) (whence Danish regere).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʁɛˈɡ̊ɛnˀd̥]

Noun

regent c (singular definite regenten, plural indefinite regenter)

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

Declension

Declension of regent

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	regent	regenten	regenter	regenterne
genitive	regents	regentens	regenters	regenternes

Related terms

• regere
• regering

References

• “regent” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch regent, from Middle French regent, from Old French regent, from Latin regēns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rəˈɣɛnt/, /reːˈɣɛnt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: re‧gent
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

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

1. regent, acting head of state in a monarch's place
2. (Belgium) a secondary school teacher whose non-university degree only qualifies to teach in the lower grades

Derived terms

• prins-regent
• regentenstand
• regentenstuk
• regentes
• regentesk
• subregent

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈreːɣənt/

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

regent

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

Anagrams

• tenger

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈre.ɡent/, [ˈrɛɡɛn̪t̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.d͡ʒent/, [ˈrɛːd͡ʒen̪t̪]

Verb

regent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of regō

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French regent, see below.

Noun

regent m (plural regens)

1. regent

Descendants

• → English: regent
• French: régent

References

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

regent

Wikipedia ^no

Etymology

From Latin regens.

Noun

regent m (definite singular regenten, indefinite plural regenter, definite plural regentene)

1. a regent, monarch, ruler

Derived terms

• prinsregent

References

• “regent” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “regent” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

regent

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Etymology

From Latin regens.

Noun

regent m (definite singular regenten, indefinite plural regentar, definite plural regentane)

1. a regent, monarch, ruler

Derived terms

• prinsregent

References

• “regent” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Etymology

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

Noun

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

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

Declension

	Case	masculine	feminine
singular	subject	regens, regenz	regente
	oblique	regent	regente
plural	subject	regent	regentes
	oblique	regens, regenz	regentes

Descendants

• Middle French: regent
  • → English: regent
  • French: régent

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

regent

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Borrowed from German Regent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛ.ɡɛnt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛɡɛnt
• Syllabification: re‧gent

Noun

regent m pers (female equivalent regentka, related adjective regencki)

1. regent (person who rules in place of the monarch)
2. (historical) official in charge of a royal chancellery, a secretary to the chancellor or the sub-chancellor; also: an official looking after the chancellery and court archives

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	regent	regenci/regenty (deprecative)
genitive	regenta	regentów
dative	regentowi	regentom
accusative	regenta	regentów
instrumental	regentem	regentami
locative	regencie	regentach
vocative	regencie	regenci

Declension of regent

Derived terms

(nouns):

• regentowa
• regentowicz

Related terms

(adjective):

• regencyjny

(noun):

• regencja

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French regent, from Latin regēns.

Noun

regent m (plural regenți)

1. regent

Declension

Declension of regent

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	regent	regentul		regenți	regenții
genitive-dative	regent	regentului		regenți	regenților
vocative	regentule			regenților

Swedish

Noun

regent c

1. a monarch or a regent, one who rules

Declension

Declension of regent

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	regent	regents
	definite	regenten	regentens
plural	indefinite	regenter	regenters
	definite	regenterna	regenternas

Anagrams

• regnet