roy
See also: Roy
English
Etymology
From Middle English roy, roye, borrowed from Old French roi (“king”). Doublet of loa, rajah, Rex, rex, and rich.
Noun
roy (plural roys)
- (obsolete, formal) A king.
Related terms
- viceroy
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 1002865976; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, OCLC 987451380, lines 140–144, page 114:
- 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.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for roy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- -ory, yor
French
Noun
roy m (plural roys)
- (pre-1800) Obsolete spelling of roi
Further reading
- “roy”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French roi, from earlier rei, from Latin rēgem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈrwɛ/
Noun
roy m (plural roys)
- king (male ruler)
Descendants
- French: roi, roy (obsolete)
- Antillean Creole: wa
- Guianese Creole: rwè
- Haitian Creole: wa
- (perhaps) ⇒ Haitian Creole: lwa
- → English: loa
- (perhaps) ⇒ Haitian Creole: lwa
- Karipúna Creole French: hué
- Louisiana Creole French: rwa
- Seychellois Creole: lerwa
Old French
Noun
roy m (oblique plural roys, nominative singular roys, nominative plural roy)
- Alternative form of roi