regnal

[reg-nl]

adjective

1. of or relating to a sovereign, sovereignty, or reign.

   the second regnal year of Louis XIV.

regnal

/ ˈrɛɡnəl /

adjective

1. of a sovereign, reign, or kingdom

2. designating a year of a sovereign's reign calculated from the date of his or her accession

Word History and Origins

Origin of regnal¹

1605–15; < Medieval Latin rēgnālis, equivalent to Latin rēgn ( um ) rule, kingdom + -ālis -al ¹; reign

Word History and Origins

Origin of regnal¹

C17: from Medieval Latin rēgnālis , from Latin rēgnum sovereignty; see _reign

Example Sentences

Centuries ago, Swedish kings based their regnal numbers on a list of sovereigns that was partly made up.

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Before Queen Elizabeth II’s death in September, there had been speculation about whether King Charles III might adopt a different regnal name to distance himself from his namesake predecessors, Charles I and Charles II.

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Tomorrow is the coronation of King Charles III, which I’ve come to understand as a sort of regnal equivalent of a bar mitzvah ceremony.

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In a performance rendered even lovelier by its contrast with the brashness of the previous five, Anna Uzele makes a touching creation of Catherine Parr, who probably did not in real life develop a theory of retroactive regnal sisterhood.

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Some owners gave a series of their pets the same name, followed by a number that indicated the pet’s place in the lineage, known as a regnal number.

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