roy
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See also: Roy
Etymology
From Middle English roy, roye, borrowed from Old French roi (“king”). Doublet of rajah, Rex, rex, and rich.
Noun
roy (plural roys)
Related terms
Adjective
roy
- (obsolete) Royal.
- 1614–1615, Homer, “The Fifth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], 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.
References
- “roy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Noun
roy m (plural roys)
Further reading
- “roy”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Etymology
From Old French roi, from earlier rei, from Latin rēgem.
Pronunciation
Noun
roy m (plural roys)
- king (male ruler)
Descendants
Noun
roy oblique singular, m (oblique plural roys, nominative singular roys, nominative plural roy)
- Alternative form of roi
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