departamental

Catalan

Etymology

From departament +‎ -al.

Adjective

departamental m or f (masculine and feminine plural departamentals)

1. departmental (of or relating to a department)

Further reading

• “departamental”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “departamental”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “departamental” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “departamental”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Portuguese

Etymology

From departamento +‎ -al. Compare French départemental

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /de.paʁ.ta.mẽˈtaw/ [de.pah.ta.mẽˈtaʊ̯]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /de.paʁ.ta.mẽˈtaw/ [de.pah.ta.mẽˈtaʊ̯]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /de.paɾ.ta.mẽˈtaw/ [de.paɾ.ta.mẽˈtaʊ̯]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /de.paʁ.ta.mẽˈtaw/ [de.paχ.ta.mẽˈtaʊ̯]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /de.paɻ.ta.mẽˈtaw/ [de.paɻ.ta.mẽˈtaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /dɨ.pɐɾ.tɐ.mẽˈtal/ [dɨ.pɐɾ.tɐ.mẽˈtaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /dɨ.pɐɾ.tɐ.mẽˈtal/ [dɨ.pɐɾ.tɐ.mẽˈtaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /dɨ.pɐɾ.tɐ.mẽˈta.li/

• Hyphenation: de‧par‧ta‧men‧tal

Adjective

departamental m or f (plural departamentais)

1. departmental (of or relating to a department)

Derived terms

• departamentalizar
• departamentalmente
• interdepartamental

Further reading

• “departamental”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “departamental”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “departamental”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “departamental”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Etymology tree

French département

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālislbor.

Old French -al

Middle French -al

French -al

French départementalbor.

Romanian departamental

Borrowed from French départemental. By surface analysis, departament + -al.

Adjective

departamental m or n (feminine singular departamentală, masculine plural departamentali, feminine/neuter plural departamentale)

1. departmental (of or relating to a department)

Declension

Declension of departamental

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	departamental		departamentală	departamentali	departamentale
	definite	departamentalul		departamentala	departamentalii	departamentalele
genitive- dative	indefinite	departamental		departamentale	departamentali	departamentale
	definite	departamentalului		departamentalei	departamentalilor	departamentalelor

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

French départementbor.

Spanish departamento

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Spanish -al

Spanish departamental

From departamento + -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /depaɾtamenˈtal/ [d̪e.paɾ.t̪a.mẽn̪ˈt̪al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: de‧par‧ta‧men‧tal

Adjective

departamental m or f (masculine and feminine plural departamentales)

1. departmental (of or relating to a department)

Derived terms

• interdepartamental

Further reading

• “departamental”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025