different between royalty vs honorary

English

Etymology

From Middle English royaltee, roialtee, royalte, from Old French roialté, roiauté, realté (compare earlier Old French realted (“realm, kingdom”)), from Vulgar Latin *r?g?lit?s, from Latin r?g?lis, equivalent to royal +? -ty.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?????lti/

Noun

royalty (countable and uncountable, plural royalties)

1. The rank, status, power or authority of a monarch.
2. People of royal rank, plus their families, treated as a group.
3. A royal right or prerogative, such as the exploitation of a natural resource; the granting of such a right; payment received for such a right.
4. The payment received by an owner of real property for exploitation of mineral rights in the property.
5. (by extension) Payment made to a writer, composer, inventor etc for the sale or use of intellectual property, invention etc.
6. (figuratively) Someone in a privileged position.
7. (poker, slang) A king and a queen as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
8. (Scotland, historical) The bounds of a royal burgh.

Descendants

• ? Danish: royalty
• ? Italian: royalty
• ? Norwegian Bokmål: royalty
• ? Norwegian Nynorsk: royalty
• ? Swedish: royalty

Translations

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ?ISBN

French

Noun

royalty f (plural royalties)

1. royalty (all senses)

Italian

Etymology

From English royalty.

Noun

royalty m (invariable)

1. royalty (payment)

Further reading

• royalty in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English royalty.

Noun

royalty m (definite singular royaltyen, indefinite plural royaltyer or royalties, definite plural royaltyene)

1. a royalty (payment)

References

• “royalty” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “royalty” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English royalty.

Noun

royalty m (definite singular royaltyen, indefinite plural royaltyar or royalties, definite plural royaltyane)

1. a royalty (payment)

References

• “royalty” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Alternative forms

• honourary (archaic)

Etymology

From honor +? -ary, modelled after French honoraire, from Latin honorarius.

Adjective

honorary (not comparable)

1. Given as an honor/honour, with no duties attached, and without payment.

2. Voluntary.
3. Describes the holder of a position or title that is assigned to him as a special honor rather than by normal channels.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

honorary (plural honoraries)

1. An honorarium; a fee for services of no fixed value.
2. (US) A kind of secret society that operates in name only, with membership given to honor some achievement.