dialectal

dialectal

English

Etymology

dialect +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdaɪəˈlɛktəl/

• Audio (UK)

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Adjective

dialectal (comparative more dialectal, superlative most dialectal)

1. Of or relating to a dialect.
2. Peculiar to a (nonstandard) variety or lect.
   • 1908, “lay v.¹”, in James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VI, Part 1, London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 128:

     Now (exc. in Nautical language, see b) it is only dialectal or an illiterate substitute for lie, its identity of form with the past tense of the latter no doubt accounting largely for the confusion.

Derived terms

• dialectally

Translations

relating to a dialect

Arabic: لَهْجِيّ‎ (lahjiyy) Armenian: բարբառային (hy) (barbaṙayin) Asturian: dialeutal, dialectal Belarusian: дыяле́ктны (dyjaljéktny) Bulgarian: диале́ктен (dialékten) Catalan: dialectal Czech: nářeční (cs) Esperanto: dialekta Finnish: murteellinen (fi) French: dialectal (fr) Galician: dialectal m or f German: mundartlich (de), dialektal (de), dialektisch (de) Hungarian: nyelvjárási Irish: canúnach Italian: (please verify) dialettale (it) Kazakh: диалектілік (dialektılık) Latin: (please verify) in dialecto/(please verify) in Dialecto Polish: dialektyczny (pl), dialektalny, dialektowy Portuguese: dialetal (pt) Romanian: dialectal (ro) Russian: диале́ктный (ru) (dialéktnyj), диалекта́льный (ru) (dialektálʹnyj) Scottish Gaelic: dualchainnteach Serbo-Croatian: nárječnī (sh), dijàlekatskī (sh), dijàlektnī (sh) Slovak: nárečový Spanish: dialectal Swedish: dialektal (sv) Ukrainian: діале́ктний (dialéktnyj) Volapük: dialegik

peculiar to a dialect

Catalan: dialectal Czech: dialektální, nářeční (cs) Finnish: omaperäinen (fi) Galician: dialectal m or f Irish: canúnach Polish: gwarowy (pl), dialektalny Portuguese: dialetal (pt) Russian: диале́ктный (ru) (dialéktnyj) Serbo-Croatian: nárječnī (sh), dijàlekatskī (sh), dijàlektnī (sh) Spanish: dialectal

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French: (please verify) dialectal (fr) Occitan: (please verify) dialectal (oc), (please verify) dialectau (oc) Romanian: (please verify) dialectal (ro) Sicilian: (please verify) dialittali

See also

• lectal
• dialectical

Further reading

• dialectal at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “dialect”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• “dialect”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “dialectal”, in Collins English Dictionary.

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Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /djaleɡˈtal/, [d̪ja.leɣ̞ˈt̪al]

Adjective

dialectal (epicene, plural dialectales)

1. Alternative form of dialeutal

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Catalan

Etymology

dialecte +‎ -al

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /di.ə.ləkˈtal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /di.a.lekˈtal/

Adjective

dialectal (masculine and feminine plural dialectals)

1. dialectal

Further reading

• “dialectal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “dialectal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “dialectal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “dialectal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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French

Etymology

From dialecte +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dja.lɛk.tal/

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Adjective

dialectal (feminine dialectale, masculine plural dialectaux, feminine plural dialectales)

1. dialectal

   Le lituanien comporte deux grands groupes dialectaux.

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Derived terms

• continuum dialectal

Further reading

• “dialectal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Occitan

Alternative forms

• dialectau (Gascon, Limousin, Provençal)

Adjective

dialectal m (feminine singular dialectala, masculine plural dialectals, feminine plural dialectalas)

1. dialectal

Related terms

• dialècte

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Portuguese

Adjective

dialectal m or f (plural dialectais)

1. Superseded spelling of dialetal. (Superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform and by the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and as an alternative spelling in Portugal.)

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French dialectal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dialekˈtal/

Adjective

dialectal m or n (feminine singular dialectală, masculine plural dialectali, feminine and neuter plural dialectale)

1. dialectal

Declension

Declension of dialectal

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	dialectal		dialectală	dialectali	dialectale
	definite	dialectalul		dialectala	dialectalii	dialectalele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	dialectal		dialectale	dialectali	dialectale
	definite	dialectalului		dialectalei	dialectalilor	dialectalelor

Related terms

• dialectalism

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Spanish

Etymology

dialecto +‎ -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /djaleɡˈtal/ [d̪ja.leɣ̞ˈt̪al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: dia‧lec‧tal

Adjective

dialectal (plural dialectales)

1. dialectal

Derived terms

• dialectalmente

Further reading

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