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regula

See also: Regula, regulá, régula, regulă, reguła, and Reguła

English

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin rēgula (“rule”). Doublet of rail, regal, rigol, and rule.

Noun

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regula (plural regulae)

  1. A book of rules for a religious establishment.
  2. (architecture) One of the bands under a Doric triglyph or between the canals of the triglyphs.

Asturian

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regula

  1. inflection of regular:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Catalan

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regula

  1. inflection of regular:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Galician

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regula

  1. inflection of regular:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Ladin

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regula

  1. inflection of reguler:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. third-person plural present indicative
    3. second-person singular imperative

Latin

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Etymology

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From regō (“I rule, govern”) +‎ -ula.

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Noun

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rēgula f (genitive rēgulae); first declension

  1. rule, bar
  2. ruler (measuring or drawing device)

Declension

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative rēgula rēgulae
genitive rēgulae rēgulārum
dative rēgulae rēgulīs
accusative rēgulam rēgulās
ablative rēgulā rēgulīs
vocative rēgula rēgulae

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Verb

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rēgulā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of rēgulō

References

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  • “regula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “regula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • regula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • regula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “regula”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎[1]
  • “regula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “regula”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “rēgŭla”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 10: R, page 217

Portuguese

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Verb

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regula

  1. inflection of regular:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Romagnol

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin regūla (“rule, measuring rod”).

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  • (Central Romagnol): IPA(key): [ˈɾeɡulɐ]

Noun

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regula f (plural regul)

  1. the old family unit of peasant families with a patriarchal structure
  2. class, rank, social class

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  • Masotti, Adelmo (1996) Vocabolario Romagnolo Italiano (in Italian), Bologna: Zanichelli, page 498

Romanian

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from French réguler, borrowed from Latin regulare. Doublet of regla.

Verb

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a regula (third-person singular present regulează, past participle regulat) 1st conj.

  1. to arrange, set in order, put in order
  2. to regulate
  3. to set
  4. (colloquial) to fuck, to screw, to bang (someone)
Conjugation
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    conjugation of regula (first conjugation, -ez- infix)
infinitive a regula
gerund regulând
past participle regulat
number singular plural
person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present regulez regulezi regulează regulăm regulați regulează
imperfect regulam regulai regula regulam regulați regulau
simple perfect regulai regulași regulă regularăm regularăți regulară
pluperfect regulasem regulaseși regulase regulaserăm regulaserăți regulaseră
subjunctive eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present să regulez să regulezi să reguleze să regulăm să regulați să reguleze
imperative — tu — — voi —
affirmative regulează regulați
negative nu regula nu regulați
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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regula

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of regulă

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin rēgula.

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  • IPA(key): /rêɡula/
  • Hyphenation: re‧gu‧la

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rȅgula f (Cyrillic spelling ре̏гула)

  1. (colloquial) rule, regulation, custom, order

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Declension of regula
singular plural
nominative regula regule
genitive regule regula
dative reguli regulama
accusative regulu regule
vocative regulo regule
locative reguli regulama
instrumental regulom regulama

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  • “regula”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /reˈɡula/ [reˈɣ̞u.la]
  • Rhymes: -ula
  • Syllabification: re‧gu‧la

Verb

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regula

  1. inflection of regular:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
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