different between reule vs reume

English

Noun

reule (plural reules)

1. Obsolete form of rule.

Verb

reule (third-person singular simple present reules, present participle reuling, simple past and past participle reuled)

1. Obsolete form of rule.

Anagrams

• Euler, Reuel

Middle English

Alternative forms

• rewle, rule, riwle, riule, rewl, rwle, reul, rewel

Etymology

From Old French reule, from Latin r?gula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?riu?l(?)/

Noun

reule (plural reules)

1. legal code, set of rules
2. moral code, principles
3. rule, authority, supervision, control
4. orderliness, efficiency
5. rule, regulation, law
6. custom, practice
7. decision, order, directive
8. instruction, recommendation
9. principle, scientific law; rule of nature
10. (Christianity) monastic rule
11. ruler, measuring stick

Derived terms

• reulen
• reuler
• reulily
• rewly

Descendants

• English: rule
• Scots: rule, reule

References

• “reule, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-01.

Old French

Alternative forms

• reulle, rieule, riule, rule, ruele

Etymology

Semi-learned term borrowed from Latin regula. Compare the inherited doublet reille, from Vulgar Latin *regla.

Noun

reule f (oblique plural reules, nominative singular reule, nominative plural reules)

1. rule (regulation, law, guideline)
2. ruler; rule (straight-edge)

Related terms

• reuler/riuler

Descendants

• ? Middle English: reule, rewle, rule
  • English: rule

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (rieule)
• reule on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

English

Noun

reume (plural reumes)

1. Obsolete form of realm.

Middle English

Noun

reume

1. Alternative form of rewme

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rheuma.

Noun

reume f (oblique plural reumes, nominative singular reume, nominative plural reumes)

1. mucus

Descendants

• ? English: rheum
• French: rhume

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (reume)
• reume on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub