[lbo-talk] Translation help!

[C. G. Estabrook]

The OED lists "kinglet" as "A petty king; a king ruling over a small territory. Mostly contemptuous."  It's been an English word since Shakespeare's time (altho' apparently not used by him). A translation of Montaigne from that time has "Cæsar termeth all the Lords ... to be Kinglets, or pettie Kings [= reguli]."

(It's also "A popular name of the Golden-crested Wren, Regulus cristatus: also of two allied N. American species, R. satrapa and R. calendula.") --CGE

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>Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 02:03:52 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>  
>Subject: [lbo-talk] Translation help!  
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
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>Hello o wise LBOers!
>
>Could you guys and gals suggest an English word for
>me? I'm trying to find a good translation for the
>Russian "tsarki." It's a dimunitive of "tsar," king.
>In the passage in question the writer calls Somosa and
>Batista "tsarki." I'm thinking "princeling," but it
>doesn't have the same derogatory meaning.
>
>Thanks!
>
>
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