regir

Learned borrowing from Latin regere, with normal change of conjugation to -ir.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

regir (first-person singular present regeixo, first-person singular preterite regí, past participle regit)

1. (transitive) to rule, to govern

• regidor

• regiment
• regne
• rei

• “regir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “regir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “regir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “regir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Learned borrowing from Latin regere.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /reˈxiɾ/
• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: re‧gir

regir (first-person singular present rijo, first-person singular preterite regí, past participle regido)

1. to rule, govern, be in charge of, reign

   Recuerda España que tú registe el imperio de los mares.

   Remember Spain that you ruled the empire of the seas.

   (Latin sentence of the Spanish empire that today is written on a sculpture in San Fernando, Spain)

2. (grammar) to take

   Algunos verbos rigen complementos indirectos.

   Some verbs take indirect objects.

• “regir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10