roy
Middle French
noun
Definitions
- king male ruler
Etymology
Inherited from Old French roi (king) inherited from Latin regem, rex (king).
Origin
Latin
regem, rex
Gloss
king
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 Roy English
- regem, rex Latin
- rēgem Latin
- rēgem, rēx, rex Latin
- Filles du Roi French
- roi French
- royal French
- roy Middle English
- roi Old French
- rouai Norman
- roué Norman
- Filles du Roy Middle French
- fille Middle French
- errege Basque
- wa Haitian, Haitian Creole