different between roial vs roil

English

Adjective

roial (comparative more roial, superlative most roial)

1. Archaic spelling of royal.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:roial.

Anagrams

• Loria, airol

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French roial.

Adjective

roial

1. Alternative form of royal
   • Late 14th century: This Cambyuskan, of which I have yow toold, / In roial vestiment sit on his deys — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Squire's Tale’, Canterbury Tales

Descendants

• English: royal

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French roial

Adjective

roial m (feminine singular roiale, masculine plural roials, feminine plural roiales)

1. royal; Alternative form of royal

Old French

Alternative forms

• real
• reial
• regiel

Etymology

From an earlier reial, real, from very early Old French (c. 880) regiel, from Latin r?g?lis, from rex.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /roi??al/

Adjective

roial m (oblique and nominative feminine singular roial or roiale)

1. royal

Declension

Related terms

• roi/rei
• regal

Descendants

• English: royal
• Middle French: roial
  • French: royal

English

Etymology

Origin uncertain. Possibly from French or Middle French rouiller (“to rust, make muddy”), from Old French rouil (“mud, rust”), from Vulgar Latin *robicula, from Latin robigo (“rust, blight”)

Pronunciation

• (UK, General American) IPA^(key): /???l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Verb

roil (third-person singular simple present roils, present participle roiling, simple past and past participle roiled)

1. (transitive) To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of.

   Synonym: agitate
2. (transitive) To annoy; to make someone angry.

   Synonyms: irritate, rile

   • 1890, Roger North, Lives of the Norths

     That his friends should believe it, was what roiled him exceedingly.

3. (intransitive) To bubble, seethe.
4. (obsolete, intransitive) To wander; to roam.
5. (obsolete, Britain, dialect, intransitive) To romp.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Translations

Anagrams

• Loir, Lori, loir

Estonian

Noun

roil

1. adessive plural of roog