reule
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
reule (plural reules)
Verb[edit]
reule (third-person singular simple present reules, present participle reuling, simple past and past participle reuled)
Anagrams[edit]
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French reule, from Latin rēgula.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
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
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “reule, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-01.
Old French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Semi-learned term borrowed from Latin regula. Compare the inherited doublet reille, from Vulgar Latin *regla.
Noun[edit]
reule oblique singular, f (oblique plural reules, nominative singular reule, nominative plural reules)
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- 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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