regulus

See also: Regulus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin regulus.

Noun

regulus (plural reguli or reguluses)

1. An impure metal formed beneath slag during the smelting of ores.

Anagrams

• Gurules

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *rēgelos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵelós. Equivalent to rēx (“king”) +‎ -ulus (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈreː.ɡu.lus/, [ˈreːɡʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.ɡu.lus/, [ˈrɛːɡulus]

Noun

rēgulus m (genitive rēgulī); second declension (Diminutive of rēx)

1. A petty king, kinglet
2. kinglet (bird), wren
3. a basilisk

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rēgulus	rēgulī
Genitive	rēgulī	rēgulōrum
Dative	rēgulō	rēgulīs
Accusative	rēgulum	rēgulōs
Ablative	rēgulō	rēgulīs
Vocative	rēgule	rēgulī

Related terms

• rēgālis
• rēgīna
• rēgīnula
• rēgnum
• rēx

Descendants

• Translingual: Regulus
• → Italian: regolo
• → Spanish: régulo

References

• “regulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “regulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• regulus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• regulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “regulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• regulus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016