regle

See also: réglé, reglé, and règle

English

Etymology

See reglement.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛɡəl/

Verb

regle (third-person singular simple present regles, present participle regling, simple past and past participle regled)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To rule; to govern.
   • a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:

     to regle their lives

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “regle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Ergle, Leger, leger

German

Verb

regle

1. inflection of regeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse regla, from Latin regula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reɡlə/

Noun

regle f or m (definite singular regla or reglen, indefinite plural regler, definite plural reglene)

1. a rhyme, jingle
2. a rhythmic and (often) rhyming series of words or syllables, often with joking or absurd content, used e.g. in children's play's or practiced as a lyrical genre

Derived terms

• barneregle

See also

• rim
• skrøne

References

• “regle” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Spanish

Verb

regle

1. inflection of reglar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative