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Regular — American Heritage Dictionary
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- YEAR
- 2022
- PUBLISHER
- HarperCollins
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
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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.
*h₃reg̑-
*h₃reg̑- → *h₃reg- → *rēg-olā- → rēgula → rēgulāris → reguler → reguler → regular
Etymology: regularis from regula, rod and rulePublishes the rule-centered ancestry.
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resolvedsupportsestablished
Did regular originally mean statistically normal?
No. The reported medieval sense centers on living under or according to a rule; ordinary and standard are later extensions.
Etymology: Middle English reguler, living under religious ruleSupplies the earlier rule-centered meaning.
resolvedcontextestablished
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.
Etymology: regula, rod and ruleIndependently supports the connection.
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EDGE 731contextestablished
regular → reguler
Present-Day English → Middle English · continuation
- SOUND
- Modern regular continues Middle English reguler through English spelling and sound history.
- MEANING
- Living by a rule expands to orderly, patterned, recurring, standard, and normal.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors
Headword definitions and etymologyIndependently foregrounds living under a rule.
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France and England
Supplies the early religious-rule context.
Etymology and living-under-rule gloss · broad070
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