different between regas vs regal

English

Etymology

re- +? gas

Verb

regas (third-person singular simple present regasses or regases, present participle regassing, simple past and past participle regassed)

1. (transitive) To refill (an appliance such as an air-conditioning unit) with the gases needed for operation.

   If your air conditioner has stopped working, you may need to regas it.

Noun

regas (plural regases or regasses)

1. The act of regassing.

References

Autocar magazine, 1994.

Anagrams

• Agers, GRASE, SEGRA, Segar, agers, gaser, gears, rages, sager, sarge, segar

Esperanto

Verb

regas

1. present of regi

Latin

Verb

reg?s

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of reg?

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?r??e?as]

Verb

regas

1. third-person singular future relative of téit

Mutation

Portuguese

Verb

regas

1. second-person singular (tu) present indicative of regar

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