different between rectangle vs regent

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French, from Old French, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin rectangulum (“right angle”), from Latin rectus (“right”) + angulus (“an angle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?ktæ??l?/

Noun

rectangle (plural rectangles)

1. (geometry) A quadrilateral having opposing sides parallel and four right angles.

Hyponyms

• (quadrilateral): oblong (not in technical use)
• (quadrilateral): square

Related terms

• rectangular
• rectilinear
• rectification
• rectify

Translations

Further reading

• rectangle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• rectangle in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• rectangle at OneLook Dictionary Search

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin or Late Latin rectangulum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /r?k?ta?.?l?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /rek?ta?.?le/

Noun

rectangle m (plural rectangles)

1. rectangle

Related terms

• rectangular

Further reading

• “rectangle” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin or Late Latin rectangulum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k.t???l/

Noun

rectangle m (plural rectangles)

1. rectangle

Derived terms

• rectangulaire

Adjective

rectangle (plural rectangles)

1. right-angled (of a geometric figure such as a triangle)

   Antonyms: obtusangle, acutangle

Further reading

• “rectangle” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• glacèrent

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman regent, Middle French regent, and their source, Latin reg?ns (“ruling; ruler, governor, prince”), present participle of reg? (“I govern, I steer”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?d??nt/

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, Philipp Blom, translating Geert Mak, Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City, Vintage 2001, p. 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 Institute in Washington DC. [from 18th c.]
5. (Indonesia) The chief executive of a regency

Derived terms

• prince regent

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

regent (comparative more regent, superlative most regent)

1. Ruling; governing; regnant.
   • 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature

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

2. Exercising vicarious authority.

Further reading

• regent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• regent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Genter, gerent

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin reg?ns.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /r???ent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /r???en/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /re?d??ent/
• Rhymes: -ent

Adjective

regent (feminine regenta, masculine plural regents, feminine plural regentes)

1. regent, governing

Noun

regent m or f (plural regents)

1. regent

Derived terms

• regentar

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?r???nt]

Noun

regent m

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

Related terms

• See režim

Further reading

• regent in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• regent in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??????n?d?]

Noun

regent c (singular definite regenten, plural indefinite regenter)

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

Inflection

Related terms

References

• “regent” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch regent, from Middle French regent, from Old French regent, from Latin reg?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r????nt/, /re????nt/
• Hyphenation: re?gent
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

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

1. regent

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?re???nt/

Verb

regent

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

Anagrams

• tenger

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?re.?ent/, [?r???n?t?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?re.d??ent/, [?r??d???n?t?]

Verb

regent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of reg?

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

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

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 reg?ns (“ruling, as a noun, a ruler, governor, prince”); present participle of reg? (“I govern, I steer”).

Noun

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

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

Declension

Descendants

• Middle French: regent
  • ? English: regent
  • French: régent

Romanian

Etymology

From French regent, from Latin régens.

Noun

regent m (plural regen?i)

1. regent

Declension

Swedish

Noun

regent c

1. a monarch or a regent, one who rules

Declension

Anagrams

• regnet