royalty

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.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɔɪəlti/

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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.

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

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

royalty f (plural royalties)

1. royalty (all senses)

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

Unadapted borrowing from English royalty.

royalty m (invariable)

1. royalty (payment)

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

From English royalty.

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

1. a royalty (payment)

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

From English royalty.

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

1. a royalty (payment)

• “royalty” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.