roi
French
noun
Definitions
- king
- (chess) king
- (card games) king
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French roy (king) inherited from Old French roi (king) inherited from Latin rēgem inherited from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (king, ruler, rules).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₃rḗǵs
Gloss
king, ruler, rules
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
王
Emoji
👑 🦁
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Filles du Roi English
- regem, rex Latin
- rēgem Latin
- rēgem, rēx Latin
- rēgem, rēx, rex Latin
- rēgis, rēx, rex Latin
- rēgālis Latin
- rēx Latin
- re Italian
- rege Italian
- Filles du Roi French
- Port-Royal French
- fille French
- roi, le roi French
- royal French
- royalement French
- royalisme French
- royaliste French
- royauté French
- *h₃reǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₃rḗǵs Proto-Indo-European
- राजन Sanskrit
- राजन् Sanskrit
- roy Middle English
- roi Old French
- rege Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- rouai Norman
- roué Norman
- Filles du Roy Middle French
- roial Middle French
- roy Middle French
- rei Old Portuguese
- *rīxs Proto-Celtic
- *Hrā́ȷ́s Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *Hrā́ȷ́ā Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *rēks Proto-Italic
- wa Haitian, Haitian Creole
- rei Old Catalan