rey

From Arabic رَأْي (raʔy).

rey

1. vote

From Old Spanish, from Latin rēx, rēgem (compare Spanish rey), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”).

rey m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ריי)

1. king

• rei

From Latin rēx, rēgem.

rey m (oblique plural reys, nominative singular reys, nominative plural rey)

1. king

• Occitan: rei, rèi

From Latin rēgem, singular accusative of rēx, from Proto-Italic *rēks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈrei̯/

rey m (plural reys or reyes)

1. king
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 53v:

     embiol ael aſenachaerib toda la plata q̃ pudo trobar en la del criador. e el teſoro de los reẏſ. eſtoz cranto ezechias las puertas del temple e todo quanto pudo aũ embiolo al reẏ de ſiria esto peſo al criador

     He sent Sennacherib all the silver he could find in the [house] of the Creator and the treasury of the kings. Then Hezekiah broke the doors of the temple and all that there was he sent to the king of Assyria. This weighed upon the Creator.

• reysmo

• regnar, regno, reyna

• Ladino: rey
• Spanish: rey
  • Chavacano: rey
  • Papiamentu: rey
  • → Interlingue: rey
  • → San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo: rey

rey m (plural reys)

1. Obsolete spelling of rei

Borrowed from Spanish rey, from Old Spanish rey, from Latin rēx, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs.

rey

1. king

• Stewart, Cloyd, Stewart, Ruth D., colaboradores amuzgos (2000) Diccionario amuzgo de San Pedro Amuzgos, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 44)‎ (in Spanish), Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 168

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin rēgem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrei/ [ˈrei̯]
• Rhymes: -ei
• Syllabification: rey

rey m (plural reyes)

1. king
2. (chess) king

• Chavacano: rey
• Papiamentu: rey
• → Interlingue: rey
• → San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo: rey

• “rey”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

From Ottoman Turkish رأی (re'i, “opinion, vote, voice”), from Arabic رَأْي (raʔy).

rey (definite accusative reyi, plural reyler)

1. (archaic) vote

• oy

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “رأی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 614a