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# rex

«rex» in Mova's school dictionary: **Latin for "king"** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (Rex — a name; rex — Latin "king", used in names and titles)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Rex is Latin for "king". It appears in names like Tyrannosaurus rex, "tyrant lizard king". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rex/#m1)

2) T. rex is a short name for Tyrannosaurus rex, a huge meat-eating dinosaur. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rex/#m2)

3) Rex is a common name for a dog, and also a boy's name. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rex/#m3)

4) (formal, UK law) Rex is used in court case names when a king is on the throne: "Rex v Smith" means the Crown (the king's side) against Smith. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rex/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science and stories about dinosaurs, T. rex is the famous giant with tiny arms and huge teeth. In history and Latin, "rex" means king and "regina" means queen. Phrases: T. rex, Tyrannosaurus rex.

### examples

- The T. rex had huge teeth and tiny arms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rex/#x1)
- Tyrannosaurus rex means "tyrant lizard king". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rex/#x2)
- Our dog Rex loves chasing balls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rex/#x3)
- We saw a T. rex skeleton at the museum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rex/#x4)
- In Latin, rex means king. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rex/#x5)
- Rex is the new boy in our class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rex/#x6)

### note

In Tyrannosaurus rex, rex has a small r; T. rex is written with a capital T and a full stop. As a name, Rex has a capital R. Plural of the Latin word is reges (rarely needed).

### In the corpora

- [The wishbone is two collarbones joined together; T. rex and Velociraptor had wishbones too, long before birds flew.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/76-end-of-the-dinosaurs-and-birds/11/)
- [Stegosaurus lived about 150 million years ago, so more time separates Stegosaurus from T. rex than separates T. rex from us.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/265-tyrannosaurus-rex-teeth-dung-and-tiny-arms/15/)
- [Snap the wishbone of the Sunday chicken and you hold the same two joined collarbones that T. rex and Velociraptor had.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/269-feathered-dinosaurs-archaeopteryx-to-chicken/4/)
- [In Jurassic Park, scientists find dinosaur blood in a mosquito trapped in amber and bring T. rex back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/297-the-future-of-life-de-extinction-climate-coral-and-frozen-zoos/1/)
- [Japanese probes brought back dust from the asteroids Itokawa and Ryugu, and NASA's OSIRIS-REx returned samples from Bennu in 2023.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/9-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rex» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rex/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.