English Online Dictionary. What means royalty? What does royalty mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle English royaltee, roialtee, royalte, from Old French roialté, roiauté, realté (compare earlier Old French realted (“realm, kingdom”)), from Vulgar Latin *rēgālitās, from Latin rēgālis, equivalent to royal + -ty. Doublet of regality.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹɔɪəlti/
- Hyphenation: roy‧al‧ty
Noun
royalty (countable and uncountable, plural royalties)
- The rank, status, power or authority of a monarch.
- People of royal rank, plus their families, treated as a group.
- 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.
- The payment received by an owner of real property for exploitation of mineral rights in the property.
- (by extension) Payment made to a writer, composer, inventor etc for the sale or use of intellectual property, invention etc.
- (authorship) To make more money from a book than it cost to run an advertising campaign for it; to make enough in royalties to cover the advance a book received.
- (figuratively) Someone in a privileged position.
- (poker, slang) A king and a queen as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
- (Scotland, historical) The bounds of a royal burgh.
Descendants
- → Danish: royalty
- → German: Royalty
- → Italian: royalty
- → Norwegian Bokmål: royalty
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: royalty
- → Portuguese: royalty
- → Swedish: royalty
Translations
References
- Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. →ISBN
French
Noun
royalty f (plural royalties)
- royalty (all senses)
Further reading
- “royalty”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English royalty.
Noun
royalty m (invariable)
- 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)
- 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)
- a royalty (payment)
References
- “royalty” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English royalty.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔjɐwt͡ʃi, -ɔjɐlti
- Hyphenation: roy‧al‧ty
Noun
royalty m (plural royalties)
- (economics, chiefly in the plural) royalty (amount paid to the holder of a patent or registered trademark, or to the author of a work, in order to allow its use and commercialization)
- (chiefly in the plural) royalty (payment made to the owner as compensation or indemnity for the use of the land where oil is explored or some mining activity is carried out)
Further reading
- “royalties”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “royalty”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025