A crowned figure on a throne, and around them a stretch of years that belongs to them: while they sit there, they are the one in charge, and that whole period gets their name.
From the word’s history
From Latin regnum 'kingship, rule, kingdom', from rex 'king', ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h3reg- 'to rule, to make straight'.
來自拉丁文 rēgnum「王權、統治、王國」，源頭是 rēx「國王」，再往上是原始印歐語詞根 *h₃reǵ-「統治、使其筆直」。同一個詞根也長出了 regal（帝王的）、regime（政權）、royal（王室的）。有趣的是那個「使其筆直」的意思：古代的統治者是那個劃出直線、定下規矩的人，這也解釋了為什麼 reign 從來不是「參與管理」，而是「站在最上面」。
Wiktionary (English 'reign', etymology tree: Latin rēgnum < rēx < PIE *h₃rḗǵs / *h₃reǵ-)
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原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
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Reignname
- 1
A male given name.
reignnoun/ɹeɪ̯n/
- 1
The exercise of sovereign power.
- England prospered under Elizabeth I's reign.
- Throughout history, no single dictator has successfully upheld their reign forever, no matter how powerful they seemed to be.
- 2
The period during which a monarch rules.
- The reign of Victoria was a long one.
- 3
The territory or sphere over which a kingdom; empire; realm; dominion, etc. is ruled.
- And the Fox guileful, and most covetous; / That neither pleased was, to have the reign / Twixt them divided into even twain
reignverb/ɹeɪ̯n/
- 1
To exercise sovereign power, to rule as a monarch.
- He reigned in an autocratic manner.
- Both we will raigne as Conſuls of the earth, And mightie kings ſhall be our Senators.
- 2
rareTo reign over (a country)
- The House of Piast reigned Poland from its foundation to 1385.
- 3
To be the winner of the most recent iteration of a competition.
- 4
To be a dominant quality of a place or situation; to prevail, predominate, rule.
- Silence reigned.
- Silence reigned, broken only by the hideous screeching of vultures and the sound of a lawn-mower being used in the hospital grounds.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。