royalty

See also: Royalty

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.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɔɪəlti/

• Audio (US):

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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.
   • 2022 December 14, Robin Leleux, “A royal occasion as heritage projects honoured: Wolferton”, in RAIL, number 972, page 61:

     Wolferton was an important station on the Kings Lynn-Hunstanton line, which closed in 1969. As the station was convenient for the Sandringham estate, it was regularly patronised by royalty, and royal retiring rooms were provided.

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. (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.
   • 2014, Richard Curtis, Mastering the Business of Writing:

     Until the total of advances in that contract has been earned out by royalties from any or all books in that contract, the author will not receive additional royalties.

7. (figuratively) Someone in a privileged position.
   • 2016 June 27, Daniel Taylor, “England humiliated as Iceland knock them out of Euro 2016”, in The Guardian‎^[1], London:

     England will have another manager for the next World Cup, Hodgson’s reign will be defined by a result comparable to losing to the United States in the 1950 World Cup and the now-familiar inquest will begin again in a country that likes to see itself as football royalty.

   • 2024 July 11, Theodore Schleifer, Jacob Bernstein, Reid J. Epstein, “How Biden Lost George Clooney and Hollywood”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     The Biden large-donor scene, where Mr. Katzenberg is treated as royalty himself, has been devastated since Mr. Biden’s debate performance two weeks ago.

8. (poker, slang) A king and a queen as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
9. (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

rank, status, etc. of a monarch

• Arabic: مَلَكِيَّة (malakiyya)
• Catalan: reialesa (ca) f
• Finnish: kuninkuus (fi)
• French: règne (fr) m
• Galician: realeza f
• Hebrew: מַלְכוּת (he) f (malchút), מלוכה f (meluchá)
• Macedonian: вели́чие n (velíčie)
• Middle English: royalte
• Norman: rouoyauté f
• Polish: królewskość (pl) f
• Portuguese: realeza (pt) f
• Romanian: regalitate (ro) f
• Russian: ца́рственность (ru) f (cárstvennostʹ), вели́чие (ru) n (velíčije)
• Sanskrit: राज्य (sa) n (rājya)
• Spanish: realeza (es) f

monarch and their families treated as a group

• Finnish: kuningasperhe (fi)
• Greek: βασιλεία (el) f (vasileía)
• Hebrew: מלוכה f
• Macedonian: кра́лски ли́ца n pl (králski líca) (royalty), кра́лско се́мејство n (králsko sémejstvo) (royal family), член на кра́лско се́мејство n (člen na králsko sémejstvo) (member of a royal family)
• Portuguese: realeza (pt) f
• Romanian: regalitate (ro) f, monarhie (ro) f
• Russian: короле́вская семья́ f (korolévskaja semʹjá) (royal family), член короле́вской семьи́ m (člen korolévskoj semʹí) (member of a royal family)
• Swedish: kunglighet (sv) c
• Vietnamese: vương quyền

royal right or prerogative

payment for exploiting mineral rights

• Finnish: rojalti (fi)
• French: royalty (fr) f, redevance (fr) f
• German: Nutzungsgebühr f
• Greek: πνευματικά δικαιώματα (el) n pl (pnevmatiká dikaiómata)
• Indonesian: royalti (id)
• Russian: ро́ялти (ru) f (rójalti) (indeclinable)

payment made to owner of intellectual property

• Armenian: ռոյալթի (hy) (ṙoyaltʻi)
• Catalan: drets d'autor m pl
• Danish: royalty c
• Finnish: tekijänoikeuskorvaus (for using literal or artistic work); rojalti (fi) (for using a patent, trademark etc.)
• French: droit d’auteur (fr) m, royalty (fr) f
• German: Tantieme (de) f, Royalty n
• Indonesian: royalti (id)
• Irish: dleacht f
• Italian: diritto d'autore (it) m, royalty (it)
• Japanese: 印税 (ja) (inzei), 特許使用料 (tokkyo shiyōryō), ロイヤリティ (roiyariti), ロイヤリティー (ja) (roiyaritī)
• Korean: 인세(印稅) (ko) (inse) (for publishing), 저작권 사용료 (jeojakgwon sayongnyo) (for non-publishing), 실시료(實施料) (silsiryo) (for patents), 로열티 (royeolti)
• Macedonian: хонора́р m (honorár)
• Maori: tiringa
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: royalty m

  Nynorsk: royalty m

• Polish: tantiema (pl) f
• Portuguese: royalty m
• Spanish: regalía (es) f, derechos de autor m pl
• Welsh: breindal m

Texas hold'em: king and a queen as a starting hand

References

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

French

Noun

royalty f (plural royalties)

1. 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)

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.

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English royalty.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɔj.ɐw.t͡ʃi/ [ˈhɔɪ̯.ɐʊ̯.t͡ʃi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɔj.ɐw.t͡ʃi/ [ˈhɔɪ̯.ɐʊ̯.t͡ʃi]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɔj.ɐw.t͡ʃi/ [ˈχɔɪ̯.ɐʊ̯.t͡ʃi]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɔj.ɐl.ti/ [ˈʁɔj.ɐɫ.ti]

• Rhymes: -ɔjɐwt͡ʃi, -ɔjɐlti
• Hyphenation: roy‧al‧ty

Noun

royalty m (plural royalties)

1. (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)
2. (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, 2003–2024
• “royalty”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024