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Lewis’s Elementary Latin Dictionary
1890 American Book Company edition; pinned Perseus XML digitizationrēgula
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MODERN ENTRY POINTS
WORD DOSSIERS
adjectiveexact historical form
regular
Conforming to a rule, pattern, order, or interval; borrowed through French from Late Latin rēgulāris.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗verbexact historical form
regulate
To govern, direct, order, or adjust according to a rule; entering English from Late Latin formations on rēgula.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗nounexact historical form
rule
A guide, standard, exercise of authority, or measuring straightedge; borrowed through French from Latin rēgula.
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SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 4
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Is regular unrelated to a physical ruler?
No. Its Late Latin adjective descends from rēgula, whose older semantic range includes a bar, rod, or straightedge.
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Does regulate jump directly from the root meaning rule?
No. The reviewed route passes through Latin rēgula, Late Latin regulāre, and its participle regulātus.
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Was rule always only an abstract command?
No. Latin rēgula meant a straightedge or ruler as well as a rule, and the physical measuring sense survives in English.
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Does rule descend directly from English right?
No. They are deep cousins: rule comes through French and Latin rēgula, while right follows Germanic *rehtaz.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 3
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A rule was a straightedge.
Latin rēgula named a straightedge or ruler as well as a principle. English authority and procedure descend through that concrete measuring branch.
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Regular is measured order.
Late Latin rēgulāris grows from rēgula, the straight bar or rule. Ordinary, scheduled, and normal are later abstractions from conformity to a rule.
RANK 156GRADE Aranked reveal
To regulate is to bring under a straightedge’s rule.
The verb passes through regulātus and regulāre to Latin rēgula. Governance and technical adjustment share the older idea of directing by rule.
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