roy

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English

Etymology

From Middle English roy, roye, borrowed from Old French roi (“king”). Doublet of rajah, Rex, rex, and rich.

Noun

roy (plural roys)

  1. (obsolete, formal) A king.

Adjective

roy

  1. (obsolete) Royal.
    • 1614–1615, Homer, “The Fifth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. , London: Rich Field , for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, , volume I, London: John Russell Smith, , 1857, →OCLC, page 114, lines 140–144:
      For in the tenth year, when roy victory / Was won to give the Greeks the spoil of Troy, / Return they did profess, but not enjoy, / Since Pallas they incens'd, and she the waves / By all the winds' power, that blew ope their graves.
      The spelling has been modernized.

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French

Noun

roy m (plural roys)

  1. (pre-1800) Obsolete spelling of roi.

Further reading

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French roi, from earlier rei, from Latin rēgem.

Pronunciation

Noun

roy m (plural roys)

  1. king (male ruler)

Descendants

  • French: roi, roy (obsolete) (pre-1800)
    • Antillean Creole: wa
    • Guianese Creole: rwè
    • Haitian Creole: wa
      • (perhaps) ⇒ Haitian Creole: lwa
        • → English: loa
    • Karipúna Creole French: hué
    • Louisiana Creole: rwa
    • Seychellois Creole: lerwa

Old French

Noun

roy oblique singular, m (oblique plural roys, nominative singular roys, nominative plural roy)

  1. Alternative form of roi
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