viceroy

See also: vice-roy

English

Alternative forms

• vice-roi

Etymology

From Middle French vice-roy, from vice- + roy (“king”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪsˌɹɔɪ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

viceroy (plural viceroys)

1. One who governs a country, province, or colony as the representative of a monarch.

   Synonyms: vicar, provost

   Ireland was governed by a Viceroy representing the English King/Queen when it was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

   • 1980, David Lean, A Screenplay of E.M. Forster's A Passage to India‎^[1], Script City, page 2:

     The Viceroy's on board - tends to liven things up.

2. A zongdu.
3. An orange and black North American butterfly (Limenitis archippus), so named because it is similar to, but smaller than, the monarch butterfly.

Coordinate terms

• vicereine

Related terms

• roy

Translations

governor of a country

• Armenian: փոխարքա (hy) (pʻoxarkʻa)
• Bulgarian: вицекрал m (vicekral)
• Burmese: ဘုရင်ခံ (my) (bhu.ranghkam)
• Catalan: virrei (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 總督／总督 (zh) (zǒngdū), 督撫／督抚 (zh) (dūfǔ)

• Czech: místokrál m
• Danish: vicekonge c
• Dutch: onderkoning (nl) m
• Esperanto: vicreĝo
• Faroese: varakongur m
• Finnish: varakuningas (fi)
• French: vice-roi (fr) m

  Middle French: vice-roy m

• Georgian: მეფისნაცვალი (mepisnacvali), ვიცე-მეფე (vice-mepe)
• German: Vizekönig m
• Hungarian: alkirály (hu)
• Ido: vicerejo (io) (male or female), vicerejino (io) (female), vicerejulo (io) (male)
• Indonesian: wazir (id), wizurai (id), raja muda (id), wakil mahkota (id), wakil raja
• Irish: fear ionaid an rí m, fear ionaid rí m, leasrí m, ionadaí rí m
• Italian: viceré (it) m
• Japanese: 総督 (ja) (そうとく, sōtoku), 副王 (ふくおう, fukuō), バイスロイ (baisuroi)
• Khmer: អនុរាជ (km) (a’nu’riech), ឧបរាជ (km) (u’pa’raach)
• Macedonian: вицекрал m (vicekral)
• Malay: wizurai
• Manx: lhiass-ree m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: visekonge m

• Polish: wicekról (pl) m
• Portuguese: vice-rei (pt) m
• Romanian: vicerege (ro) m
• Russian: вице-коро́ль (ru) m (vice-korólʹ)
• Shan: ပယိၼ်ႇၶၢမ်ႇ (pǎ yìn khàam)
• Spanish: virrey (es) m
• Swedish: vicekonung
• Tagalog: birey
• Turkish: naip (tr), kral naibi
• Ukrainian: віце-коро́ль m (vice-korólʹ)

zongdu — see zongdu

butterfly

• Polish: wicekról (pl) m

See also

• governor-general, governor general
• lord lieutenant