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