Interrex Definition

intərreks
interreges
noun
A person acting as ruler during an interregnum.
Webster's New World

(history) An official in Ancient Rome, who acted as single head of state during the interregnum between two consulates.

Wiktionary

(history) An equivalent regent from the death of a Polish king till the election and enthronement of his successor.

Wiktionary

(figuratively) A similar interim ruler, CEO etc.

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Other Word Forms of Interrex

Noun

Singular:
interrex
Plural:
interrexes

Origin of Interrex

  • From Latin, inter- (“between”) + rex (“king”).

    From Wiktionary

Interrex Sentence Examples

  • These were greater advantages than the exclusive patrician possession of the offices of interrex, rex sacrorum and the higher flamens.

  • The Catuli and Metelli, among the proudest nobles of Rome, were plebeians, and as such could not have been chosen to the purely patrician office of interrex, or of Jupiter.

  • Finally, the people elected to every magistracy with the exception of the occasional offices of Dictator and Interrex.

  • The second class, referred to in inscriptions by the name of praefecti ab decurionibus creati lege Petronia, seem to have been appointed by the local senate in case of a complete absence of higher magistrates, such as would have led in Rome to the appointment of an interrex.

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