figural
English
Etymology
From Old French figural, from late Latin figūrālis, from figūra (“figure”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɪɡ(j)ʊɹəl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɪɡjəɹəl/
- Hyphenation: fig‧ur‧al
Adjective
figural (comparative more figural, superlative most figural)
- Representing by means of a figure; emblematic.
- 2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin 2009, p. 185:
- The counterparts, in the Christian era, to the figural anticipation of Christ in the Old Testament were the deliverer monarchs and leaders of later times […]
- 2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin 2009, p. 185:
- Figurative, not literal.
- (mathematics, obsolete) Of numbers, describing a geometrical figure.
- (obsolete) Pertaining to a figure, shape.
- (rare) Pertaining to (human) figures.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 262-3:
- Some of the Umayyads found themselves charmed by the cultures which they had conquered, so that archaeologists in Palestine and Syria have revealed an astonishing flourishing of Christian-style figural art under their rule.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 262-3:
- (music) Figurate.
Old French
Adjective
figural m (oblique and nominative feminine singular figurale)
- symbolic
Declension
Declension of figural
Number | Case | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Subject | figuraus | figurale | figural |
Oblique | figural | |||
Plural | Subject | figural | figurales | |
Oblique | figuraus |
Descendants
- English: figural
- French: figural