régulier

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French reguler, borrowed from Late Latin regulāris.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁe.ɡy.lje/

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Adjective

régulier (feminine régulière, masculine plural réguliers, feminine plural régulières)

1. regular (conforming to rules)
2. (geometry, of a polygon) regular (both equilateral and equiangular; having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same size)

   Antonym: irrégulier

   un polygone régulier ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   un hexagone régulier ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

3. (geometry, of a polyhedron) regular (whose faces are all congruent regular polygons, equally inclined to each other)

   un polyèdre régulier ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

4. (grammar, of a verb) regular

   Antonym: irrégulier

5. dependable
6. legitimate
7. regular, steady (continual)

Derived terms

• irrégulier
• régulièrement

Related terms

• règle
• régularité
• réguler

Noun

régulier m (plural réguliers, feminine régulière)

1. (dated, slang) one's regular sexual or romantic partner (as opposed to a partner with which one is having an affair)

   Synonym: légitime

Further reading

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