reule

reule (plural reules)

1. Obsolete form of rule.

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

1. Obsolete form of rule.

• Euler, Reuel

• rewle, rule, riwle, riule, rewl, rwle, reul, rewel
• regol, regul, reȝol, reȝhell (Early Middle English)

From Old French reule and Old English regol, both from Latin rēgula.

• (from Old French reule) IPA^(key): /ˈriu̯l(ə)/
• (from Old English regol) IPA^(key): /ˈreːɣəl/ (Early Middle English)

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

• reulen
• reuler
• reulily
• rewly

• English: rule
• Scots: rule, reule

• “reule, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 1 April 2018.
• “regol, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 7 October 2025.

• reulle, rieule, riule, rule, ruele

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

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

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

• reuler/riuler

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

• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “rieule”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.
• reule on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub