roy en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈɹɔɪ̯/
- [ˈɹʷɔɪ̯]
- /ˈɹoɪ̯/
- [ˈɹʷoɪ̯]
Etymology
From Middle English roy, roye, borrowed from Old French roi (“king”). Doublet of rajah, Rex, rex, and rich.
Meanings
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(archaic) Royal.
For in the tenth year, when roy victory / Was won to give the Greeks the spoil of Troy, / Return they did profess, but not enjoy, / Since Pallas they incens'd, and she the waves / By all the winds' power, that blew ope their graves.
1614–1615, Homer, “The Fifth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC, page 114, lines 140–144: