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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Pliny the Elder|origins=la rēgula}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [reː.ɡʊˈɫaː.rɪs]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [re.ɡuˈlaː.ris]^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Forms==
+ '''rēgulāris''' (neuter rēgulāre, adverb rēgulāriter); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)
+ 
+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[af|la|regula|-āris|t1=ruler, bar, rule]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|rēgula]] comes from [[rego|alt=regō]], from [[ine-pro|*h₃reǵ-|t=to straighten, direct]].^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Pliny the Elder uses ''aes rēgulāre'', a refined copper that can be beaten into bars.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates him 23/24–79 AD.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ In Pliny it meant of a bar, malleable, and Isidore of Seville repeats the term.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) The TLL notes that it is otherwise found from Tyconius on, above all in Christian writers.^(TLL) Caelius Aurelianus uses it of books containing rules of diet, and Cassiodorus of what is canonical.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Georges 1913)
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+ In medieval Latin it meant regular, normal, and conforming to the rules of church discipline, living under a monastic rule.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Köbler 2010) As a noun ''rēgulāris'' was a monk or canon, from 755, and a nun.^(Köbler 2010) English ''regular'' is recorded around 1400 for what belongs to a religious rule.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses ''aes rēgulāre''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 5th century AD – Caelius Aurelianus uses it of books of rules.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 755 – Church councils use it as a noun for a monk or canon.^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 1400 – English ''regular'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
+ 
+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Adjective===
+ # Of a bar, ''aes rēgulāre'' malleable copper.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ # ''(Late Latin)'' Containing rules, serving as a rule.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Wiktionary)
+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' Canonical; living under a rule.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Niermeyer 1976)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' [[m|en|regular]], normal.^(Niermeyer 1976)
+ 
+ ===Noun===
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A monk, canon; a nun.^(Köbler 2010)
+ 
+ ==Word family==
+ * [[irrēgulāris]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[regula|alt=rēgula]]
+ * [[en|regular]]
+ 
+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}