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regal
English
Alternative forms
- regall (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??i???l/
Etymology 1
From Middle English regal, from Old French regal (“regal, royal”), from Latin r?g?lis (“royal, kingly”), from rex (“king”); also regere (“to rule”). Doublet of royal (“belonging to a monarch”) and real (“unit of currency”). Cognate with Spanish real.
Adjective
regal (comparative more regal, superlative most regal)
- Of or relating to royalty.
- Befitting a king, queen, emperor, or empress.
- Befitting a king, or emperor.
Coordinate terms
- reginal
Related terms
- regime
- regimen
Translations
See also
- kingly
- royal
- splendid
- stately
Etymology 2
From Middle French régale, possibly from Old French regol (“a gutter, channel”).
Noun
regal (plural regals)
- (music) A small, portable organ whose sound is produced by beating reeds without amplifying resonators. Its tone is keen and rich in harmonics. The regal was common in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; today it has been revived for the performance of music from those times.
- An organ stop of the reed family, furnished with a normal beating reed, but whose resonator is a fraction of its natural length. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries these stops took a multitude of forms. Today only one survives that is of universal currency, the so-called Vox Humana.
Translations
Anagrams
- Agler, Alger, Elgar, Large, Ragle, ergal, glare, lager, large
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /r???al/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /re??al/
Noun
regal m (plural regals)
- present; gift
Related terms
- regalar
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin r?g?lis. Compare the inherited reial, roial.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /re??al/
Adjective
regal m (oblique and nominative feminine singular regale)
- regal
Synonyms
- roial
Descendants
- English: regal
Romanian
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin r?g?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /re??al/
Adjective
regal m or n (feminine singular regal?, masculine plural regali, feminine and neuter plural regale)
- royal
- regal
Declension
Synonyms
- regesc
Antonyms
- neregal
- neregesc
Related terms
- rege
Etymology 2
Borrowed from French régal.
Noun
regal n (plural regale)
- feast
- banquet
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pompous
English
Etymology
From Middle English pompous, from Old French pompeux, from Late Latin pomposus, from Latin pompa (“pomp”), from Ancient Greek ????? (pomp?, “a sending, a solemn procession, pomp”), from ????? (pémp?, “I send”). Doublet of pomposo.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p?mp?s/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p?mp?s/
Adjective
pompous (comparative more pompous, superlative most pompous)
- Affectedly grand, solemn or self-important.
- 1848, Thackeray, William Makepeace, Vanity Fair, Bantam Classics (1997), 16:
- "Not that the parting speech caused Amelia to philosophise, or that it armed her in any way with a calmness, the result of argument; but it was intolerably dull, pompous, and tedious; and having the fear of her schoolmistress greatly before her eyes, Miss Samuel did not venture, in her presence, to give way to any ebullitions of private grief."
- 1848, Thackeray, William Makepeace, Vanity Fair, Bantam Classics (1997), 16:
Synonyms
- conceited
- smug
- See also Thesaurus:arrogant
Antonyms
- humble
- modest
- self-effacing
Related terms
- pomp
- pomposity
- pompously
Translations
Further reading
- pompous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- pompous in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- pompous at OneLook Dictionary Search
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