Noun: rei
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | rei |
| Singular f | rainha |
| Plural m | reis |
| Plural f | rainhas |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like rei
rei,
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 rex
7. Old Galician-Portuguese rei
8. Portuguese rei
9. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese rei, from Latin rēgem (“king”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“rules”). Compare Galician and Fala rei. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
rei', Old Portuguese Nouns '
rei', Latin Nouns '
rēx'.
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