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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)

1. Of or relating to royalty.
2. Befitting a king, queen, emperor, or empress.
3. 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)

1. (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.
2. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. royal
2. regal

Declension

Synonyms

• regesc

Antonyms

• neregal
• neregesc

Related terms

• rege

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French régal.

Noun

regal n (plural regale)

1. feast
2. banquet

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin r?g?lia, neuter plural of r?g?lis (“of a king”), from r?x (“king”). Doublet of regal.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????e?l.i.?/
• Rhymes: -e?li?

Noun

regalia pl (plural only)

1. Royal rights, prerogatives and privileges actually enjoyed by any sovereign, regardless of his title (emperor, grand duke etc.).
2. The emblems, symbols, or paraphernalia indicative of royalty or any other sovereign status; such as a crown, orb, sceptre or sword.
3. Decorations or insignia indicative of an office or membership of an order or society; such as freemasonry.
4. (by extension) Finery, magnificent dress, or lavish or flashy costume.

5. (by extension, obsolete) Sumptuous food.

   Synonym: delicacies

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Translations

Noun

regalia (plural regalias)

1. (archaic) A kind of large cigar of superior quality.
   • 1840, Isaac Butt, Irish Life (page 294)

     I have taken care that there's both brandy and whiskey nicely stowed away in the barrack-room, with plenty of prime regalia cigars […]

   • 1850, United States. Congress, Congressional Edition: Volume 552 (page 868)

     The quantity of regalias imported into northern ports is comparatively small.

Related terms

• regal
• royalty

See also

• Crown Jewels

Anagrams

• Algeria, lairage

French

Alternative forms

• régalia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e.?a.lja/

Noun

regalia f (uncountable)

1. regalia

Italian

Etymology

From Medieval Latin r?g?lia, “gratuity” sense influenced by regalare.

Noun

regalia f (plural regalie)

1. tip, gratuity

   Synonym: mancia

2. regalia
3. handout

Related terms

• regalare
• regalo (“present”)

Anagrams

• Algeria
• regalai

Latin

Adjective

r?g?lia

1. nominative neuter plural of r?g?lis
2. accusative neuter plural of r?g?lis
3. vocative neuter plural of r?g?lis

References

• regalia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Anagrams

• aligera

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

regalia n pl (plural only)

1. regalia

References

• “regalia” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.