regal
English
Alternative forms
- regall (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɹiːɡəl/
Audio (UK) (file)
- Rhymes: -iːɡəl
Etymology 1
From Middle English regal, from Old French regal (“regal, royal”), from Latin rēgālis (“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.
- regal authority
- the regal title
- 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], OCLC 1044608640:
- He made a scorn of his regal oath.
- Befitting a king, queen, emperor, or empress.
- 2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
- The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.
- 2018 July 14, Lineker, Gary, Twitter, retrieved 2018-07-15:
- Terrific movement from The Queen here. Gets behind the defender, goes one way then cuts back inside. Regal attacking play.
- 2022 December 10, Harry Taylor, “Liz Truss and I ‘got carried away’ writing mini-budget, admits Kwasi Kwarteng”, in The Guardian:
- Kwarteng said he had urged Truss to “slow down” over reforms, but a cabinet minister told the FT that she felt “invincible, almost regal”.
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- Befitting a king, or emperor.
- c. 1898, Truth, column 2:
- The children to whom I acted as cicerone almost screamed with glee as they saw the four-and-twenty blackbirds emerging from the pie-crust in front of the astonished King; and when the climax of the inconsequential story was reached, by way of the regal counting house and the “reginal” parlour, and a blackbird (presumably one of the four-and-twenty that had been temporarily immured in the pie) was seen about to revenge himself on the innocent nose of the guiltless laundry-maid, a veritable climax of enthusiasm was reached.
- c. 1947, Hobbies, page 27, column 1:
- The crown seals, a regal crown and a reginal crown are unengraved, but from the motif I judge they symbolize King William III of England and Queen Mary, (see 1688, English History) who formerly ruled Holland as Prince William, Consort, and Queen Mary — The House of Orange.
- 1973, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, page 78, column 2:
- In any case, the discrepancy might be explained by the fact that the 9th pylon has not yet disgorged all it blocks; it is in the talatat from this pylon that the masonry of the essentially regal (as opposed to reginal) temples Tni-mnw and Rwd-mnw predominate.
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Coordinate terms
- reginal
Related terms
- regime
- regimen
Translations
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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
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Anagrams
- Agler, Alger, Elgar, Large, Ragle, ergal, glare, lager, large
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /rəˈɡal/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /reˈɡal/
Audio (file)
Noun
regal m (plural regals)
- present; gift
Related terms
- regalar
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin rēgālem. Doublet of roial, which was inherited.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /reˈɡal/
Adjective
regal m (oblique and nominative feminine singular regale)
- regal
Descendants
- Middle French: regal
- → Middle English: regal
- English: regal
Romanian
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin rēgālis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /reˈɡal/
Adjective
regal m or n (feminine singular regală, masculine plural regali, feminine and neuter plural regale)
- royal
- regal
Declension
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative | indefinite | regal | regală | regali | regale | ||
definite | regalul | regala | regalii | regalele | |||
genitive/ dative | indefinite | regal | regale | regali | regale | ||
definite | regalului | regalei | regalilor | regalelor |
Synonyms
- regesc
Antonyms
- neregal
- neregesc
Related terms
- rege
Etymology 2
Borrowed from French régal.
Noun
regal n (plural regale)
- feast
- banquet