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