regalitas

Classical rēgālis (“regal, royal”) +‎ -tās (“-ty”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /reːˈɡaː.li.taːs/, [reːˈɡäːlʲɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /reˈɡa.li.tas/, [reˈɡäːlit̪äs]

rēgālitās f (genitive rēgālitātis); third declension (Medieval Latin)

1. royal dignity, royalty, regality
2. regality, majesty (an honorific title of kings)
   • 1219 November, Raymond and Donato de Pinibus (citizens of La Reole), edited by Walter Waddington Shirley, Royal and Other Historical Letters Illustrative of the Reign of Henry III. from the Originals in the Public Record Office (Rerum Britannicarum Medii Ævi Scriptores, or Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland During the Middle Ages; 27), volumes I: 1216–1235, London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, published 1862, letter XLV (Royal Letters № 1,043), page 53:

     Noverit ergo vestra excellentia dominum archiepiscopum Auxitanum fuisse quamplurimum gratulatum de literis, quas sibi vestra dignata est regalitas delegare; et cum prius esset curiosus, nunc multo fit curiosior in vestris negotiis pertractandis.

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Third-declension noun.

• → English: regality
• → French: régalité
• Italian: regalità
• Old French: roialté, roiauté
• → Romanian: regalitate

• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “regalitas”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• regalitas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• regalitas in Ramminger, Johann (2024 May 8 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016