rey

From Arabic رَأْي (raʔy).

rey

1. vote

From Old Spanish, from Latin rēx, rēgem (compare Spanish rey), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”).

rey m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ריי)

1. king

• rei

From Latin rēx, rēgem.

rey m (oblique plural reys, nominative singular reys, nominative plural rey)

1. king

• Occitan: rei, rèi

From Latin rēgem, singular accusative of rēx, from Proto-Italic *rēks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈrei̯/

rey m (plural reys or reyes)

1. king
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 53v:

     embiol ael aſenachaerib toda la plata q̃ pudo trobar en la del criador. e el teſoro de los reẏſ. eſtoz cranto ezechias las puertas del temple e todo quanto pudo aũ embiolo al reẏ de ſiria esto peſo al criador

     He sent Sennacherib all the silver he could find in the [house] of the Creator and the treasury of the kings. Then Hezekiah broke the doors of the temple and all that there was he sent to the king of Assyria. This weighed upon the Creator.

• reysmo

• regnar, regno, reyna

• Ladino: rey
• Spanish: rey
  • Chavacano: rey
  • Papiamentu: rey
  • → San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo: rey

rey m (plural reys)

1. Obsolete spelling of rei.

Borrowed from Spanish rey, from Old Spanish rey, from Latin rēx, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs.

rey

1. king

• Stewart, Cloyd, Stewart, Ruth D., colaboradores amuzgos (2000) Diccionario amuzgo de San Pedro Amuzgos, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 44)‎^[1] (in Spanish), Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., →ISBN, page 168

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin rēgem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrei/ [ˈrei̯]
• Rhymes: -ei
• Syllabification: rey

rey m (plural reyes)

1. king
2. (chess) king

• Chavacano: rey
• Papiamentu: rey
• → San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo: rey

Chess pieces in Spanish · piezas de ajedrez (layout · text)
rey	dama, reina	torre, roque	alfil	caballo	peón

Playing cards in Spanish · cartas (layout · text)
as	dos	tres	cuatro	cinco	seis	siete
ocho	nueve	diez	sota	reina	rey	comodín

• “rey”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

From Ottoman Turkish رأی (re'i, “opinion, vote, voice”), from Arabic رَأْي (raʔy).

rey (definite accusative reyi, plural reyler)

1. (archaic) vote

Inflection
Nominative	rey
Definite accusative	reyi
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rey	reyler
Definite accusative	reyi	reyleri
Dative	reye	reylere
Locative	reyde	reylerde
Ablative	reyden	reylerden
Genitive	reyin	reylerin

• oy

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “رأی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 614a