Definition:Regular/Linguistic Note
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Linguistic Note on Regular
The mathematical meaning of regular evolves from its natural language usage to mean obeying rules, uniform, occurring at equal time intervals or according to a common pattern, and therefore predictable.
Its linguistic origin is from the Latin rēgulāris, meaning guided by a rule or rules.
This ultimately originates from Proto-Indo-European reg-, meaning to move in a straight line.