Noun: reign
| Singular | reign |
| Plural | reigns |
Sample Sentences
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England prospered under Elizabeth I's reign.
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Throughout history, no single dictator has successfully upheld their reign forever, no matter how powerful they seemed to be. [2020 December 6, Xin Yan, “The Seemingly Impossible Is Possible”, in Minghui:]
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The reign of Victoria was a long one.
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And the Fox guileful, and most covetous; / That neither pleased was, to have the reign / Twixt them divided into even twain [1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Prosopopoia. Or Mother Hubberds Tale.”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like reign
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-s
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs
5. Proto-Italic *rēks
6. Latin rēx
7. Proto-Indo-European *-nós
8. Proto-Italic *-nos
9. Latin -nus
10. Latin *rēgnusnom.
11. Latin rēgnum
12. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
13. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
14. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
15. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
16. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
17. Proto-Italic *-ājō
18. Proto-Italic *-āō
19. Latin -ō
20. Latin rēgnō, rēgnārebor.
21. Old French reignier
22. Anglo-Norman regnerbor.
23. Middle English regnen
24. English reign
25. Inherited from Middle English regnen, from Old French reignier, from the Latin verb rēgnō, and the noun rēgnum. Doublet of regnum. Displaced native Old English rīċe (“a reign”) and ricsian (“to reign”).
Verbs referencing "reign"
Spanish Nouns
reino.