LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
noun · masculinethird declension

rēgnātor

rēgnātor m (genitive rēgnātōris)

Meaning

  1. king, ruler
    regnator, caelum et terras qui numine torquet.king, who bends heaven and earth to his will.Aeneid, Vergil, IV:269

Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers

quī rēgnat, rēx magnus
rēgnātor -ōris (m) — in Aeneis, ch. 6

Declension

declension
formsingularplural
nominativerēgnātorrēgnātōrēs
genitiverēgnātōrisrēgnātōrum
dativerēgnātōrīrēgnātōribus
accusativerēgnātōremrēgnātōrēs
ablativerēgnātōrerēgnātōribus
vocativerēgnātorrēgnātōrēs

regnātor, ōris, m. regno,
I. a ruler, sovereign (poet.): deūm regnator, Naev. ap. Fest. s. v. quianam, p. 257, 28 Müll.; Verg. A. 4, 269: deorum, Plaut. Am. prol. 45; cf.: summi Olympi, Verg. A. 7, 558; 10, 437: regnator omnium deus, Tac. G. 39: corniger Hesperidum fluvius regnator aquarum, Verg. A. 8, 77; Col. 10, 200: Asiae (Priamus), Verg. A. 2, 557 Wagn.: Neptunus regnator marum, Naev. ap. Prisc. p. 770 P.; cf. of the same: freti, Sen. Hippol. 945: lyricae cohortis (Pindarus), Stat. S. 4, 7, 5: agelli, i. e. owner, Mart. 10, 61, 3.—With dat.: occiduis regnator montibus Atlas, Val. Fl. 2, 621: Illyricis regnator aquis, i. e. the Danube, Aus. Epigr. 3.— Absol.: in Siciliā, ubi rex Agathocles regnator fuit, Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 58; Mart. 11, 6, 2.

Origins

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₃reǵ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₃rḗǵs
  3. Proto-Italic*rēks
  4. Latinrēgnātor

Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin *rēgnusnom. Latin rēgnum Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin rēgnō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin rēgnātor From rēgnō (“to rule”) + -tor (“-er”, suffix forming agent nouns).

Quick answers

What does rēgnātor mean in Latin?
rēgnātor, a noun, means “king, ruler”.
What is the genitive of rēgnātor?
The genitive singular is rēgnātōris. rēgnātor is masculine, third declension.
Where does rēgnātor come from?
Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- → Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs → Proto-Italic *rēks → Latin rēgnātor.