rey

See also: Rey and -rey

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Arabic رَأْي‎ (raʾy).

Noun

rey

1. vote

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Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish, from Latin rēx, rēgem (compare Spanish rey), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”).

Noun

rey m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ריי‎)

1. king

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Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• rei

Etymology

From Latin rēx, rēgem.

Noun

rey m (oblique plural reys, nominative singular reys, nominative plural rey)

1. king

Descendants

• Occitan: rei, rèi

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Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin rēgem, singular accusative of rēx, from Proto-Italic *rēks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrei̯/

Noun

rey m (plural reys or reyes)

1. king
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 53v.

     embiol ael aſenachaerib toda la plata q́ pudo trobar en la del criador. e el teſoro de los reẏſ. eſtoz cranto ezechias las puertas del temple e todo quanto pudo aù embiolo al reẏ de ſiria esto peſo al criador

     He sent Sennacherib all the silver he could find in the [house] of the Creator and the treasury of the kings. Then Hezekiah broke the doors of the temple and all that there was he sent to the king of Assyria. This weighed upon the Creator.

Derived terms

• reysmo

Related terms

• regnar, regno, reyna

Descendants

• Ladino: rey
• Spanish: rey
  • Chavacano: rey
  • Papiamentu: rey
  • → Interlingue: rey
  • → San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo: rey

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Portuguese

Noun

rey m (plural reys)

1. Obsolete spelling of rei

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San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish rey, from Old Spanish rey, from Latin rēx, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs.

Noun

rey

1. king

References

• Stewart, Cloyd; Stewart, Ruth D.; colaboradores amuzgos (2000) Diccionario amuzgo de San Pedro Amuzgos, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 44)‎^[1] (in Spanish), Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 168

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Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish, from Latin rēx, rēgem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrei/ [ˈrei̯]
• Rhymes: -ei
• Hyphenation: rey

Noun

rey m (plural reyes)

1. king
2. (chess) king

Derived terms

• a cuerpo de rey
• a rey muerto, rey puesto
• astro rey
• en el reino de los ciegos, el tuerto es el rey
• hablando del rey de Roma
• pingüino rey
• rey de armas
• rey de codornices
• rey de las ratas
• Reyes Católicos
• Reyes Magos
• sota, caballo y rey
• Valle de los Reyes
• zopilote rey

 

Related terms

• real
• regio
• regir
• reina
• reinado
• reinar
• reino
• virrey

Descendants

• Chavacano: rey
• Papiamentu: rey
• → Interlingue: rey
• → San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo: rey

See also

Playing cards in Spanish · cartas (layout · text)
as	dos	tres	cuatro	cinco	seis	siete
ocho	nueve	diez	sota	reina	rey	comodín

Further reading

• “rey”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish رأی‎ (re'i, “opinion, vote, voice”), from Arabic رَأْي‎ (raʾy).

Noun

rey (definite accusative reyi, plural reyler)

1. vote

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	rey
Definite accusative	reyi
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rey	reyler
Definite accusative	reyi	reyleri
Dative	reye	reylere
Locative	reyde	reylerde
Ablative	reyden	reylerden
Genitive	reyin	reylerin

Synonyms

• oy

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “رأی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 614a