regal
English
Alternative forms
- regall (obsolete)
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Etymology 1
From Middle English regal, borrowed 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 having to do with royalty.
- regal authority; the regal title
- (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- 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, Gary Lineker, Twitter[1], retrieved 2018-07-15:
- Terrific movement from The Queen here. Gets behind the defender, goes one way then cuts back inside. Regal attacking play.
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Etymology 2
Probably 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.
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regal m (plural regals)
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Novial
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Derived from rege (“monarch, king or queen”)
Root: reg-
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Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin rēgālis. Compare the inherited reial, roial.
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regal m (oblique and nominative feminine singular regale)
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- English: regal
Romanian
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regal m or n (feminine singular regală, masculine plural regali, feminine and neuter plural regale)
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