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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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regency
English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin regentia, from Latin regens, present participle of reg?, surface analysis regent +? -cy, compare also +? -ency (“abstract-noun suffix”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??i?d???nsi/
Noun
regency (countable and uncountable, plural regencies)
- A system of government that substitutes for the reign of a king or queen when that king or queen becomes unable to rule.
- The time during which a regent is in power.
- An administrative division ranking below a province in Indonesia.
Related terms
- regent
- regal
- regalia
- coregency
Translations
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