royalty

See also: Royalty

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɔɪəlti/

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Noun

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. (figurative) Someone in a privileged position.
   • 2016 June 27, Daniel Taylor, “England humiliated as Iceland knock them out of Euro 2016”, in The Guardian‎^[1], 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.

Descendants

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

Translations

rank, status, etc. of a monarch

• Arabic: مَلَكِيَّة‎ (malakiyya)
• Catalan: reialesa f
• Finnish: kuninkuus (fi)
• French: règne (fr) m
• Galician: realeza f
• Hebrew: מַלְכוּת‎ (he) f (malchút), מלוכה‎ f (meluchá)
• Macedonian: вели́чие n (velíčie)
• Middle English: royalte
• Norman: rouoyauté f
• Polish: królewskość (pl) f
• Portuguese: realeza (pt) f
• Romanian: regalitate (ro) f
• Russian: ца́рственность (ru) f (cárstvennostʹ), вели́чие (ru) n (velíčije)
• Sanskrit: राज्य (sa) n (rājya)
• Spanish: realeza f

monarch and their families treated as a group

• Finnish: kuningasperhe (fi)
• Greek: βασιλεία (el) f (vasileía)
• Hebrew: מלוכה‎ f
• Macedonian: кра́лски ли́ца n pl (králski líca) (royalty), кра́лско се́мејство n (králsko sémejstvo) (royal family), член на кра́лско се́мејство n (člen na králsko sémejstvo) (member of a royal family)
• Portuguese: realeza (pt) f
• Romanian: regalitate (ro) f, monarhie (ro) f
• Russian: короле́вская семья́ f (korolévskaja semʹjá) (royal family), член короле́вской семьи́ m (člen korolévskoj semʹí) (member of a royal family)
• Swedish: kunglighet (sv) c
• Vietnamese: vương quyền

royal right or prerogative

payment for exploiting mineral rights

• Finnish: rojalti (fi)
• French: royalty (fr) f, redevance (fr) f
• German: Nutzungsgebühr f
• Greek: πνευματικά δικαιώματα (el) n pl (pnevmatiká dikaiómata)
• Indonesian: royalti (id)
• Russian: ро́ялти (ru) f (rójalti) (indeclinable)

payment made to owner of intellectual property

• Armenian: ռոյալթի (hy) (ṙoyaltʿi)
• Catalan: drets d'autor m pl
• Danish: royalty c
• Finnish: tekijänoikeuskorvaus (for using literal or artistic work); rojalti (fi) (for using a patent, trademark etc.)
• French: droit d’auteur (fr) m, royalty (fr) f
• German: Tantieme (de) f
• Indonesian: royalti (id)
• Irish: dleacht f
• Italian: diritto d'autore (it) m, royalty (it)
• Japanese: 印税 (ja) (inzei), 特許使用料 (tokkyo shiyōryō), ロイヤリティ (roiyariti), ロイヤリティー (roiyaritī)
• Korean: 인세(印稅) (ko) (inse) (for publishing), 저작권 사용료 (jeojakgwon sayongnyo) (for non-publishing), 실시료(實施料) (silsiryo) (for patents), 로열티 (royeolti)
• Macedonian: хонора́р m (honorár)
• Maori: tiringa
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: royalty m

  Nynorsk: royalty m

• Polish: tantiema (pl) f
• Portuguese: royalty m
• Welsh: breindal m

Texas hold'em: king and a queen as a starting hand

References

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

French

Noun

royalty f (plural royalties)

1. royalty (all senses)

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English royalty.

Noun

royalty m (invariable)

1. royalty (payment)

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English royalty.

Noun

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

1. a royalty (payment)

References

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English royalty.

Noun

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

1. a royalty (payment)

References

• “royalty” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.