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

    Latin

    Etymology

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

    Sense 3 is a semantic loan from Ancient Greek βασιλίσκος (basilískos).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

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

    1. A petty king, kinglet
    2. kinglet (bird), wren
    3. a basilisk; a venomous serpent
      • c. AD 382-405, Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus, Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Liber Proverbiorum 23:31-32
        ne intuearis vinum quando flavescit cum splenduerit in vitro color eius ingreditur blande / sed in novissimo mordebit ut coluber et sicut regulus venena diffundet
        Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour thereof shineth in the glass: it goeth in pleasantly, / But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad poison like a basilisk.

    Declension

    Second-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative rēgulus rēgulī
    genitive rēgulī rēgulōrum
    dative rēgulō rēgulīs
    accusative rēgulum rēgulōs
    ablative rēgulō rēgulīs
    vocative rēgule rēgulī

    Descendants

    • Translingual: Regulus
    • → English: 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, 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 (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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