The name Regnenses has been read as a Latin word, interpreted as "people of the kingdom" (that is, the client kingdom, rather than the territories ruled directly by Roman officials). This is a historical hypothesis, and depends on reconstructing the name of the civitas as Regnenses; that is far from certain, as many linguists favour a native Regni or Regini. "Even the reading of the genitive plural tribe name in [the Ravenna Cosmography] as Regnentium is a tendentious emadation ...