regula

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

English

Etymology

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

Noun

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

Verb

regula

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

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [rəˈɣu.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [reˈɣu.la]

Verb

regula

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

Galician

Verb

regula

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

Ladin

Verb

regula

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

Latin

Etymology

From regō (“to rule, govern”) +‎ -ula.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈreː.ɡʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈrɛː.ɡu.la]

Noun

rēgula f (genitive rēgulae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

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

Derived terms

• exceptiō probat rēgulam

Descendants

Descendants

• Padanian:
  • Lombard: reigia, règlia, riggia, reggia
    • →⇒ Italian: reggetta
  • Romagnol: régula, regula
  • Romansch: regla
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: reille, roille, riule
    • → Middle English: reule, rewle, rule
      • English: rule
    • French (dialectal): rille
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: rella
  • Catalan: rella
  • Occitan: relha
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: rella
  • Asturian: reya
  • Extremaduran: arreya
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: relha
    • Galician: rella
    • Portuguese: relha
  • Old Spanish: rexa
    • Spanish: reja
    • → Catalan: reixa
    • → Galician: reixa
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: regra, arregra, rega, regia, reja
• Ancient borrowings:
  • → Berber: tirigliwin
  • → Proto-Brythonic: *rreɣol (from rĕgula with shortened vowel)
    • Old Breton: regul
      • Middle Breton: reul, reol, reoll
        • Breton: reol
    • Middle Cornish: rovle
    • Middle Welsh: reol, ryol
      • Welsh: rheol
  • → Old Irish: ríagol, ríagul
    • Middle Irish: ríagal
      • Irish: riail
      • Scottish Gaelic: riaghail
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *regulā (see there for further descendants)
• Later borrowings:
  • → Albanian: rregull
  • → Asturian: regla
  • → Catalan: règula
  • → French: règle
  • → Galician: regra
  • → Italian: regola
  • → Portuguese: regra, régua
  • → Romanian: regulă
  • → Sicilian: règula, rìgula
  • → Spanish: regla
    • → Tagalog: regla

Verb

rēgulā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of rēgulō

References

• “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
• “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

Verb

regula

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

Romagnol

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

regula f (plural regul)

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

References

• Masotti, Adelmo (1996), Vocabolario Romagnolo Italiano [Romagnol-Italian dictionary] (in Italian), Bologna: Zanichelli, page 498

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re.ɡuˈla/

Etymology 1

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

Verb

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

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

    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

Derived terms

• regulat

Related terms

• regla
• regulă

Etymology 2

Noun

regula

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of regulă

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin rēgula.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

rȅgula f (Cyrillic spelling ре̏гула)

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

Declension

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

References

• “regula”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Verb

regula

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