royalty

royalty

See also: Royalty

English

Etymology

From Middle English royaltee, roialtee, royalte, from Old French roialté, roiauté, realté (compare earlier Old French realted (“realm, kingdom”)), from Vulgar Latin *rēgālitās, from Latin rēgālis, equivalent to royal +‎ -ty.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɔɪəlti/

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Noun

royalty (countable and uncountable, plural royalties)

1. The rank, status, power or authority of a monarch.
2. People of royal rank, plus their families, treated as a group.
   • 2022 December 14, Robin Leleux, “A royal occasion as heritage projects honoured: Wolferton”, in RAIL, number 972, page 61:

     Wolferton was an important station on the Kings Lynn-Hunstanton line, which closed in 1969. As the station was convenient for the Sandringham estate, it was regularly patronised by royalty, and royal retiring rooms were provided.

3. A royal right or prerogative, such as the exploitation of a natural resource; the granting of such a right; payment received for such a right.
4. The payment received by an owner of real property for exploitation of mineral rights in the property.
5. (by extension) Payment made to a writer, composer, inventor etc for the sale or use of intellectual property, invention etc.
6. (figuratively) Someone in a privileged position.
   • 2016 June 27, Daniel Taylor, “England humiliated as Iceland knock them out of Euro 2016”, in The Guardian‎, London:

     England will have another manager for the next World Cup, Hodgson’s reign will be defined by a result comparable to losing to the United States in the 1950 World Cup and the now-familiar inquest will begin again in a country that likes to see itself as football royalty.

7. (poker, slang) A king and a queen as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
8. (Scotland, historical) The bounds of a royal burgh.

Descendants

• → Danish: royalty
• → Italian: royalty
• → Norwegian Bokmål: royalty
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: royalty
• → Swedish: royalty

Translations

rank, status, etc. of a monarch

Arabic: مَلَكِيَّة‎ (malakiyya) Catalan: reialesa f Finnish: kuninkuus (fi) French: règne (fr) m Galician: realeza f Hebrew: מַלְכוּת‎ (he) f (malchút), מלוכה‎ f (meluchá) Middle English: royalte Norman: rouoyauté f Polish: królewskość (pl) f Portuguese: realeza (pt) f Romanian: regalitate (ro) f Russian: ца́рственность (ru) f (cárstvennostʹ), вели́чие (ru) n (velíčije) Sanskrit: राज्य (sa) n (rājya) Spanish: realeza f

monarch and their families treated as a group

Finnish: kuningasperhe (fi) Greek: βασιλεία (el) f (vasileía) Hebrew: מלוכה‎ f Portuguese: realeza (pt) f Romanian: regalitate (ro) f, monarhie (ro) f Russian: короле́вская семья́ f (korolévskaja semʹjá) (royal family), член короле́вской семьи́ m (člen korolévskoj semʹí) (member of a royal family) Swedish: kunglighet (sv) c Vietnamese: vương quyền

royal right or prerogative

payment for exploiting mineral rights

Finnish: rojalti (fi) French: royalty (fr) f, redevance (fr) f German: Nutzungsgebühr f Greek: πνευματικά δικαιώματα (el) n pl (pnevmatiká dikaiómata) Indonesian: royalti (id) Russian: ро́ялти (ru) f (rójalti) (indeclinable)

payment made to owner of intellectual property

Armenian: ռոյալթի (hy) (ṙoyaltʿi) Catalan: drets d'autor m pl Danish: royalty c Finnish: tekijänoikeuskorvaus (for using literal or artistic work); rojalti (fi) (for using a patent, trademark etc.) French: droit d'auteur (fr) m, royalty (fr) f German: Tantieme (de) f Indonesian: royalti (id) Irish: dleacht f Italian: diritto d'autore (it) m, royalty (it) Japanese: 印税 (ja) (inzei), 特許使用料 (tokkyo shiyōryō), ロイヤリティ (roiyariti), ロイヤリティー (roiyaritī) Maori: tiringa Norwegian: Bokmål: royalty m Nynorsk: royalty m Polish: tantiema (pl) f Portuguese: royalty m Welsh: breindal m

Texas hold'em: king and a queen as a starting hand

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN

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French

Noun

royalty f (plural royalties)

1. royalty (all senses)

Further reading

• “royalty”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English royalty.

Noun

royalty m (invariable)

1. royalty (payment)

Further reading

• royalty in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English royalty.

Noun

royalty m (definite singular royaltyen, indefinite plural royaltyer or royalties, definite plural royaltyene)

1. a royalty (payment)

References

• “royalty” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “royalty” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English royalty.

Noun

royalty m (definite singular royaltyen, indefinite plural royaltyar or royalties, definite plural royaltyane)

1. a royalty (payment)

References

• “royalty” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.