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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

Borrowed from Late Latin renalis (“related to the kidneys”), from Latin renes (“kidneys”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?n?l/
• Rhymes: -i?n?l

Adjective

renal (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to the kidneys.

Synonyms

• nephric
• nephritic

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• renal at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Laren, Larne, Learn, laner, learn, neral

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin renalis, from Latin ren.

Adjective

renal (masculine and feminine plural renals)

1. renal

Related terms

• ronyó

Further reading

• “renal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin renalis, from Latin ren.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?na?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

renal (not comparable)

1. renal

Declension

Derived terms

• perirenal

Further reading

• “renal” in Duden online

Interlingua

Adjective

renal (not comparable)

1. renal

Romanian

Etymology

From French rénal, from Latin renalis.

Adjective

renal m or n (feminine singular renal?, masculine plural renali, feminine and neuter plural renale)

1. renal

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin renalis, from Latin ren.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?nal/, [re?nal]
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

renal (plural renales)

1. renal

Derived terms

Related terms

• rene
• riñón

Further reading

• “renal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.