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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin regulus.
Noun
regulus (plural reguli or reguluses)
- An impure metal formed beneath slag during the smelting of ores.
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *rēgelos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵelós. Equivalent to rēx (“king”) + -ulus (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
rēgulus m (genitive rēgulī); second declension (diminutive of rēx)
- A petty king, kinglet
- kinglet (bird), wren
- a basilisk
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “regulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “regulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- regulus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- regulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “regulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- regulus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016