English Explanatory Dictionary

r.

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. Ruled, reigned, used to show that provided dates are the period of a ruler's authority rather than their birth and death.
adj
  1. Abbreviation of rare.
  2. Abbreviation of revision.
  3. Abbreviation of royal.
  4. Abbreviation of right.
noun
  1. Abbreviation of rule.
  2. Abbreviation of ruble.
  3. Abbreviation of river.
name
  1. Abbreviation of Regina (“the queen”).
  2. Abbreviation of Rex (“the king”).
  3. Abbreviation of Rabbi.

Word forms

r. rs.

Etymology

Originally from Latin r., abbreviating Latin rēgnāvit (“[he/she/it] ruled”), the third-person singular perfect active indicative of rēgnāre (“to rule, to reign”). Now often parsed as an abbreviation of English ruled or reigned.

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