different between govern vs regle

English

Etymology

From Middle English governen, governe, from Anglo-Norman and Old French governer, guverner, from Latin gubern?, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kuberná?, “I steer, drive, govern”)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???v?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???v?n/
• Hyphenation: gov?ern
• Rhymes: -?v?(?)n

Verb

govern (third-person singular simple present governs, present participle governing, simple past and past participle governed)

1. (transitive) To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.

2. (transitive) To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.
   • 2016, Justin Deschamps, Find the strength, courage, and discipline to govern yourself or be governed by someone else.

     Find the strength, courage, and discipline to govern yourself or be governed by someone else.

3. (transitive) To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.

4. (transitive) To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.

5. (intransitive) To exercise political authority; to run a government.
6. (intransitive) To have or exercise a determining influence.
7. (transitive, grammar) To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word; sometimes used synonymously with collocate.

Related terms

• government
• governance
• governor
• governess

Translations

Noun

govern (plural governs)

1. The act of governing

Catalan

Etymology

From the verb governar, or possibly from Late Latin gubernus or gubernius, from Latin gubernum or gubern?.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?o?v??n/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?u?b?rn/

Noun

govern m (plural governs)

1. government

Related terms

• governar

References

Further reading

• “govern” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “govern” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “govern” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

English

Etymology

See reglement.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?????l/

Verb

regle (third-person singular simple present regles, present participle regling, simple past and past participle regled)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To rule; to govern.
   • 1662, Thomas Fuller, History of the Worthies of England

     to regle their lives

Anagrams

• Leger, leger

German

Verb

regle

1. inflection of regeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse regla, from Latin regula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?l?/

Noun

regle f or m (definite singular regla or reglen, indefinite plural regler, definite plural reglene)

1. a rhyme, jingle
2. a rhythmic and (often) rhyming series of words or syllables, often with joking or absurd content, used e.g. in children's play's or practiced as a lyrical genre

Derived terms

• barneregle

See also

• rim
• skrøne

References

• “regle” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Spanish

Verb

regle

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of reglar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of reglar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of reglar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of reglar.