reule
English
Middle English
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
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 oblique singular, f (oblique plural reules, nominative singular reule, nominative plural reules)
Related terms
- reuler/riuler
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
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