The story
- French · derived fromroi fainéant“lazy king”
- English todayroi fainéant
From French roi fainéant (“lazy king”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
roi fainéant
Today it means: Any of the later French kings of the Merovingian dynasty, considered to have played a merely ceremonial role. Full definition →
French roi fainéant