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Etymology
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From Middle French vice-roy, from vice- + roy (“king”).
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- IPA(key): /ˈvaɪsˌɹɔɪ/
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viceroy (plural viceroys)
- One who governs a country, province, or colony as the representative of a monarch.
- Synonyms: vicar, provost
Ireland was governed by a Viceroy representing the English King/Queen when it was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1980, David Lean, A Screenplay of E.M. Forster's A Passage to India[1], Script City, page 2:The Viceroy's on board - tends to liven things up.
- A zongdu.
- An orange and black North American butterfly (Limenitis archippus), so named because it is similar to, but smaller than, the monarch butterfly.
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governor of a country
- Armenian: փոխարքա (hy) (pʻoxarkʻa)
- Bulgarian: вицекрал m (vicekral)
- Burmese: ဘုရင်ခံ (my) (bhu.ranghkam)
- Catalan: virrei (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 總督/总督 (zh) (zǒngdū), 督撫/督抚 (zh) (dūfǔ)
- Czech: místokrál m
- Danish: vicekonge c
- Dutch: onderkoning (nl) m
- Esperanto: vicreĝo
- Faroese: varakongur m
- Finnish: varakuningas (fi)
- French: vice-roi (fr) m
- Middle French: vice-roy m
- Georgian: მეფისნაცვალი (mepisnacvali), ვიცე-მეფე (vice-mepe)
- German: Vizekönig m
- Hungarian: alkirály (hu)
- Ido: vicerejo (io) (male or female), vicerejino (io) (female), vicerejulo (io) (male)
- Indonesian: wazir (id), wizurai (id), raja muda (id), wakil mahkota (id), wakil raja
- Irish: fear ionaid an rí m, fear ionaid rí m, leasrí m, ionadaí rí m
- Italian: viceré (it) m
- Japanese: 総督 (ja) (そうとく, sōtoku), 副王 (ふくおう, fukuō), バイスロイ (baisuroi)
- Khmer: អនុរាជ (km) (a’nu’riech), ឧបរាជ (km) (u’pa’raach)
- Macedonian: вицекрал m (vicekral)
- Malay: wizurai
- Manx: lhiass-ree m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: visekonge m
- Polish: wicekról (pl) m
- Portuguese: vice-rei (pt) m
- Romanian: vicerege (ro) m
- Russian: вице-коро́ль (ru) m (vice-korólʹ)
- Shan: ပယိၼ်ႇၶၢမ်ႇ (pǎ yìn khàam)
- Spanish: virrey (es) m
- Swedish: vicekonung
- Tagalog: birey
- Turkish: naip (tr), kral naibi
- Ukrainian: віце-коро́ль m (vice-korólʹ)
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