vice-roi

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English

Etymology

From French vice-roi.

Noun

vice-roi (plural vice-rois)

  1. Alternative form of viceroy.
    • 1798, A New and General Biographical Dictionary; Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; , volume I, London: G. G. and J. Robinson, J. Johnson, J. Nichols, J. Sewell, , page 563:
      Among theſe are reckoned, a Hiſtory (in good repute) of the great men of Sicily, Palermo, 1704, 4to. and a Hiſtory of the Vice-rois of Sicily, ibid. 1697, folio.
    • 1824 November, The Universal Review, page 279:
      The vice-roi of Italy with a central army also of 80,000 men, composed of his own corps and of that of Saint-Cyr, was to throw himself between the two Russian armies, and to cut off their communication.
    • 1841, The European Indicator or Road-book for Travellers on the Continent, , Florence: Félix Le Monnier, page 17, column 1:
      The prosperity of Antwerp, once so great, began to decline under the tyranny of the cruel Duke of Alva, the vice-roi of Philip II of Spain.
    • 1851, Hogg’s Instructor, volume VI, Edinburgh: James Hogg, ; London: R. Groombridge & Sons, page 44, column 1:
      You find, however, a curious collection of portraits of all the vice-rois and first presidents of Peru, from Columbus down to the Grand-Marshal Lamar.
    • 1923, Thalia Estella Smith Millard, A Critical Study of the Poetic Works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, page 67:
      And in the letters to the vice-rois, although she used all the humble phraseology of a language which is full of such phrases, yet there is an unbending pride and independence behind it all.
    • 1959, Salamon Dembitzer, Visas for America: A Story of an Escape, Sydney, N.S.W.: Villon Press, page 264:
      He was the vice-roi of Hicem and absolutely refused to be drawn into any lengthy discussion.
    • 1998, Louise Lux, The Unsullied Dynasty & the Kʻang-hsi Emperor, Philadelphia, Pa.: Mark One Printing, page 147:
      The bribee was the Vice-roi of Liang-kwang (Kwangtung and Kwangsi provinces), the bribe was 20,000 (or 200,000) ducats; []
    • 2004, Pahlad Ramsurrun, Manilal Doctor: Historic Court Cases in Mauritius, Sterling Publishers Private Limited, →ISBN, page 8:
      His continued struggle in the Law Courts, his thought-provoking arguments in the press, his petitions to the Governor, to the Secretary of State for the colonies, and sometimes to the Vice-Roi of India were all his Satyagraha strategy, which he had been experimenting in this country.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French vice-roy. By surface analysis, vice- +‎ roi.

Pronunciation

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Noun

vice-roi m (plural vice-rois)

  1. viceroy

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