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Borrowed from Latin regulus.

regulus (plural reguli or reguluses)

1. An impure metal formed beneath slag during the smelting of ores.

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From Proto-Italic *rēgelos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵelós. Equivalent to rēx (“king”) +‎ -ulus (diminutive suffix).

Sense 3 is a semantic loan from Ancient Greek βασιλίσκος (basilískos).

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

rēgulus m (genitive rēgulī); second declension (diminutive of rēx)

1. A petty king, kinglet
2. kinglet (bird), wren
3. a basilisk; a venomous serpent
   • c. AD 382-405, Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus, Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Liber Proverbiorum 23:31-32

     ne intuearis vinum quando flavescit cum splenduerit in vitro color eius ingreditur blande / sed in novissimo mordebit ut coluber et sicut regulus venena diffundet

     Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour thereof shineth in the glass: it goeth in pleasantly, / But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad poison like a basilisk.

Second-declension noun.

• rēgālis
• rēgīna
• rēgīnula
• rēgnum
• rēx

• Translingual: Regulus
• → English: regulus
• → Italian: regolo
• → Spanish: régulo

• “regulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “regulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "regulus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “regulus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “regulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• regulus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

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