regal

See also Regal, regał, and régal

English

Alternative forms

• regall (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English regal, from Old French regal (“regal, royal”), from Latin regalis (“royal, kingly”), from Latin rex (“king”); also regere (“to rule”).

Adjective

regal (comparative more regal, superlative most regal)

1. Of or having to do with royalty.

   regal authority; the regal title

   • Milton

     He made a scorn of his regal oath.

2. Befitting a king, queen, emperor, or empress.

Related terms

• regime
• regimen

Translations

of or having to do with royalty

• Arabic: مَلَكِي (ar)
• Bulgarian: кралски (bg) (králski) m, царски (bg) (tsárski) m
• Catalan: reial (ca)
• Finnish: kuninkaallinen (fi)
• Irish: ríoga (ga)

• Macedonian: кралски (mk) (králski) m, царски (mk) (cárski) m
• Romanian: regal (ro) m and n, regală (ro) f
• Scottish Gaelic: rìoghail (gd)
• Spanish: real (es), regio (es)

befitting a king

• Finnish: kuninkaallinen (fi), ruhtinaallinen (fi)
• Irish: ríoga (ga)
• Macedonian: кралски (mk) (králski) m, царски (mk) (cárski) m

• Scottish Gaelic: rìoghail (gd)
• Spanish: real (es), regio (es)

Noun

regal (plural regals)

1. (obsolete, music) A small, portable organ played with one hand, the bellows being worked with the other, used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Translations

Translations

• Italian: rigabello (it) m

See also

• kingly
• royal
• splendid
• stately

Anagrams

• Alger
• Elgar
• glare
• lager
• large

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Catalan

Noun

regal m (plural regals)

1. present; gift

Related terms

• regalar

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Novial

Etymology

Derived from rege, a monarch, king or queen.

Root: reg-.

Morphemes: reg- + -al.

Adjective

regal

1. regal, royal

Related terms

rege	{ n }	monarch
rego	{ n }	king
rega	{ n }	queen
regia	{ n }	kingdom
regira	{ v }	reign
regiro	{ n }	reign
regido	{ n }	royal prince
regida	{ n }	royal princess
viserego	{ n }	viceroy
regonal	{ adj }	kingly
reganal	{ adj }	queenly

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Old French

Etymology

Latin regalis

Adjective

regal m (feminine regale)

1. regal

Synonyms

• roial

Descendants

• English: regal

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Romanian

Etymology

Latin regalis

Adjective

regal m (feminine regală)

1. regal

Synonyms

• regesc

Antonyms

• neregal
• neregesc