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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--regent This week's theme: adjectives used postpositively. regent (REE-juhnt) adjective Ruling for a limited period, on behalf of a king or queen who is a minor, absent, or ill. [From Latin regent-, present participle of regere (to rule). Ultimately from the Indo-European reg- (to move in a straight line, to lead or rule) that is also the source of regime, direct, rectangle, erect, rectum, alert, source, and surge.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org) "Thousands of public workers continued their strike last week, after rejecting a proposal by Princess Regent Pilolevu [of Tonga] to grant them salary increases of 60 percent to 80 percent. The workers, on strike since late July, are also demanding political reforms." World Notes; People's Weekly World (New York); Sep 10-16, 2005. X-Bonus The butterfly counts not years but moments and has time enough. -Rabindranath Tagore, poet, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel laureate (1861-1941)

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