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 *rēgālitātem, accusative singular of Vulgar Latin *rēgālitās, from Latin rēgālis, equivalent to royal +‎ -ty.

Pronunciation

• 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.
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. (figuratively) Someone in a privileged position.
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.

Translations

rank, status, etc. of a monarch

• Arabic: مَلَكِيَّة (malakiyya)
• Catalan: reialesa f
• Finnish: kuninkuus (fi)
• French: règne (fr) m
• Galician: realeza f
• Hebrew: מלוכה f (melukhá)
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• Middle English: royalte
• Norman: rouoyauté f
• Portuguese: realeza (pt) f
• Romanian: regalitate (ro) f
• Russian: ца́рственность (ru) f (cárstvennostʹ), вели́чие (ru) n (velíčije)
• Spanish: realeza f

monarch and their families treated as a group

• Finnish: kuningasperhe (fi)
• Greek: βασιλεία (el) f (vasileía)
• Hebrew: מלוכה f
• Portuguese: realeza (pt) f
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• 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)
• Vietnamese: vương quyền

royal right or prerogative

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payment for exploiting mineral rights

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

payment made to owner of intellectual property

• Armenian: ռոյալթի (hy) (ṙoyaltʻi)
• Catalan: drets d'autor m pl
• Finnish: tekijänoikeuskorvaus (for using literal or artistic work); rojalti (fi) (for using a patent, trademark etc.)
• German: Tantieme (de) f
• Indonesian: royalti (id)
• Irish: dleacht f
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• Maori: tiringa
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: royalty m

  Nynorsk: royalty m

• Portuguese: royalty m
• Welsh: breindal m

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

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References

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

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French

Noun

royalty f (plural royalties)

1. royalty (all senses)

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Italian

Etymology

From English royalty

Noun

royalty m (uncountable)

1. royalty (payment)

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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).

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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.