different between primatal vs primatial

English

Etymology

From primate +? -al. Compare primatial.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p????me?t(?)l/

Adjective

primatal (comparative more primatal, superlative most primatal)

1. (zoology, rare) Pertaining to primates.

Noun

primatal (plural primatals)

1. (rare) A primate.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 346:

     ‘She was twelve,’ Van added, ‘and I was a male primatal of fourteen and a half, and we just did not care.’

English

Etymology

From primate +? -ial.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p????me??(?)l/
• Rhymes: -e???l

Adjective

primatial (not comparable)

1. (ecclesiastical) Of or pertaining to a primate.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 672:

     The Inquisition even ruined the career of Bartolomé Carranza, Archbishop of Spain's primatial see of Toledo, and a distinguished Dominican theologian.

Anagrams

• impartial

French

Etymology

primat +? -al

Adjective

primatial (feminine singular primatiale, masculine plural primatiaux, feminine plural primatiales)

1. primatial