rey

See also: Rey, -rey, and rəy

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Arabic رَأْي (raʔy).

Noun

rey

1. vote

Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish, from Latin rēx, rēgem (compare Spanish rey), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”).

Noun

rey m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ריי)

1. king

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• rei

Etymology

From Latin rēx, rēgem.

Noun

rey m (oblique plural reys, nominative singular reys, nominative plural rey)

1. king

Descendants

• Occitan: rei, rèi

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin rēgem, singular accusative of rēx, from Proto-Italic *rēks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrei̯/

Noun

rey m (plural reys or reyes)

1. king
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 53v:

     embiol ael aſenachaerib toda la plata q̃ pudo trobar en la del criador. e el teſoro de los reẏſ. eſtoz cranto ezechias las puertas del temple e todo quanto pudo aũ embiolo al reẏ de ſiria esto peſo al criador

     He sent Sennacherib all the silver he could find in the [house] of the Creator and the treasury of the kings. Then Hezekiah broke the doors of the temple and all that there was he sent to the king of Assyria. This weighed upon the Creator.

Derived terms

• reysmo

Related terms

• regnar, regno, reyna

Descendants

• Ladino: rey
• Spanish: rey
  • Chavacano: rey
  • Papiamentu: rey
  • → San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo: rey

Portuguese

Noun

rey m (plural reys)

1. Obsolete spelling of rei.

San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish rey, from Old Spanish rey, from Latin rēx, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs.

Noun

rey

1. king

References

• Stewart, Cloyd, Stewart, Ruth D., colaboradores amuzgos (2000) Diccionario amuzgo de San Pedro Amuzgos, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 44)‎^[1] (in Spanish), Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 168

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin rēgem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrei/ [ˈrei̯]
• Rhymes: -ei
• Syllabification: rey

Noun

rey m (plural reyes)

1. king
2. (chess) king

Derived terms

• a cuerpo de rey
• a rey muerto, rey puesto
• adoración de los Reyes
• aquí del rey
• astro rey
• caballerizo mayor del rey
• cámara del rey
• capa de rey
• capellán mayor del rey
• casa del rey
• cena del rey
• como cuerpo de rey
• corona de rey
• en el reino de los ciegos, el tuerto es el rey
• guarda mayor del rey
• hablando del rey de Roma
• huevo de rey
• la del rey
• lo del rey
• mes del rey
• moro de rey
• ni rey ni roque
• palabra de rey
• pie de rey
• pingüino rey
• primer caballerizo del rey
• rey de armas
• rey de codornices
• rey de gallos
• rey de las ratas
• rey de los arenques
• rey de romanos
• rey de zopilotes
• rey del hogar
• Reyes Católicos
• Reyes Magos
• rosca de reyes
• servir al rey
• sota, caballo y rey
• Valle de los Reyes
• zopilote rey

 

Related terms

• real
• regio
• regir
• régulo
• reina
• reinado
• reinar
• reino
• virrey

 

Descendants

• Chavacano: rey
• Papiamentu: rey
• → San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo: rey

See also

Playing cards in Spanish · cartas (layout · text)
as	dos	tres	cuatro	cinco	seis	siete
ocho	nueve	diez	sota	reina	rey	comodín

Further reading

• “rey”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish رأی (re'i, “opinion, vote, voice”), from Arabic رَأْي (raʔy).

Noun

rey (definite accusative reyi, plural reyler)

1. (archaic) vote

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	rey
Definite accusative	reyi
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rey	reyler
Definite accusative	reyi	reyleri
Dative	reye	reylere
Locative	reyde	reylerde
Ablative	reyden	reylerden
Genitive	reyin	reylerin

Synonyms

• oy

Further reading

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “رأی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 614a