reule
English
Noun
reule (plural reules)
- Obsolete form of rule.
Verb
reule (third-person singular simple present reules, present participle reuling, simple past and past participle reuled)
- Obsolete form of rule.
Anagrams
- Euler, Reuel
Middle English
Alternative forms
- rewle, rule, riwle, riule, rewl, rwle, reul, rewel
Etymology
From Old French reule, from Latin rēgula.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈriu̯l(ə)/
Noun
reule (plural reules)
- legal code, set of rules
- moral code, principles
- rule, authority, supervision, control
- orderliness, efficiency
- rule, regulation, law
- custom, practice
- decision, order, directive
- instruction, recommendation
- principle, scientific law; rule of nature
- (Christianity) monastic rule
- ruler, measuring stick
Derived terms
- reulen, rewlen, rulen
- reuler, rewler
- reulily, reweleliche
- rewly
Descendants
- English: rule
- Scots: rule, reule
References
- “reule (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-01.
Old French
Alternative forms
- reulle
- rieule
- riule
- rule
- ruele
Etymology
Semi-learned term borrowed from Latin regula. Compare the inherited doublet reille, from Vulgar Latin *regla.
Noun
reule f (oblique plural reules, nominative singular reule, nominative plural reules)
- rule (regulation, law, guideline)
- ruler; rule (straight-edge)
Related terms
- reuler/riuler
Descendants
- Middle English: reule, rewle, rule
- English: rule
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (rieule)
- reule on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub