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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--regnant This week's theme: adjectives used postpositively. regnant (REG-nuhnt) adjective 1. Ruling (reigning, as opposed to simply having the title by marriage). 2. Predominant; widespread. [From Latin regnare (to reign). Ultimately from Indo-European reg- (to move in a straight line, to lead or rule) that's also the source of regime, direct, rectangle, erect, rectum, alert, source, and surge.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "Aylmer saw a queen regnant as two persons, one private and one public." Julia M Walker; Dissing Elizabeth; Duke University Press; 2004. X-Bonus Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. -Colette, author (1873-1954)

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