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vice⋅roy

  [vahys-roi]
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1. a person appointed to rule a country or province as the deputy of the sovereign: the viceroy of India.
2. a brightly marked American butterfly, Limenitis archippus, closely mimicking the monarch butterfly in coloration.
Origin:
1515–25; < MF, equiv. to vice- vice- + roy king < L rēgem, acc. of rēx

Related forms:
vice⋅roy⋅ship, noun
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vice·roy   (vīs'roi')   
n.  
  1. A man who is the governor of a country, province, or colony, ruling as the representative of a sovereign.
  2. An orange and black North American butterfly (Limenitis archippus), resembling but somewhat smaller than the monarch.

[French : vice-, vice; see vicereine + roi, king (from Latin rēx, rēg-; see reg- in Indo-European roots).]
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Viceroy

Vice"roy\, n. [F. vice-roi; pref. vice- in the place of (L. vice) + roi a king, L. rex. See Vice, prep. and Royal.]

1. The governor of a country or province who rules in the name of the sovereign with regal authority, as the king's substitute; as, the viceroy of India.

2. (Zo["o]l.) A large and handsome American butterfly (Basilarchia, or Limenitis, archippus). Its wings are orange-red, with black lines along the nervures and a row of white spots along the outer margins. The larv[ae] feed on willow, poplar, and apple trees.
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viceroy 
person ruling as representative of a sovereign, 1524, from M.Fr. vice-roy, from O.Fr. vice- "deputy" (see vice-) + roi "king," from L. regem (nom. rex); see rex. The species of American butterfly so called from 1881.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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viceroy

one who rules a country or province as the representative of his sovereign or king and who is empowered to act in the sovereign's name. Viceroy (virrey) was the title given to the principal governors of Spain's American colonies, as well as to the governors of the "kingdoms" (reinos) of peninsular Spain proper (e.g., Aragon, Valencia)

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