reign: [13] Reign goes back via Old French reignier to Latin rēgnāre ‘be king, rule’, a derivative of rēgnum ‘kingship’ (source of English interregnum [16]). This was closely related to rēx ‘king’ (source of English regal, royal, etc), and also to regere ‘rule’ (source of English rector, regent, etc). => interregnum, regent
reign (n.)
early 13c., "kingdom," from Old French reigne "kingdom, land, country" (Modern French règne), from Latin regnum "kingship, dominion, rule, realm," related to regere (see regal). Meaning "period of rule" first recorded mid-14c.
reign (v.)
"to hold or exercise sovereign power," late 13c., from Old French regner "rule, reign" (12c.), from Latin regnare "have royal power, be king, rule, reign," from regnum (see reign (n.)). Related: Reigned; reigning; regnal.
例文
1. The commanders accused him of carrying out a reign of terror.
指揮官たちは彼の恐怖統治を非難した。
2.More and more nobles made Moscow their home during Catherine 's reign .
エカテリーナ大帝統治時代には、モスクワに移住する貴族が増えていた。
3.Archaeologists have dated the fort to the reign of Emperor Antoninus Pius.
考古学者はこの砦がローマ皇帝アンソニー?庇護統治時代に建てられたと判定した。
4.The reign of Queen Elizabeth lapped over into the seventeenth century.