viceroyalty

English

Etymology

From vice- +‎ royalty, modeled on French vice-royauté.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaɪsˈɹɔɪəlti/

Noun

viceroyalty (countable and uncountable, plural viceroyalties)

1. The office or term of service of a viceroy; viceroydom
2. The place governed by a viceroy

   India became a viceroyalty when the British government directly annexed it in the 1850s.

Translations

place governed by a viceroy

• German: Vizekönigreich n
• Greek: αντιβασιλεία (el) n (antivasileía)
• Hungarian: alkirályság (hu)
• Italian: vicereame (it) m
• Latin: vicerēgnum n
• Portuguese: vice-reinado m
• Spanish: virreinato (es) m, virreino (es) m