regale

See also: Regale, régalé, régale, and regalé

English

WOTD – 30 May 2007

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French régaler (“to entertain, feast”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French regale, rigale, from gale (“merriment”), probably of (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  origin (see Old French galer). Influenced by Old French se rigoler (“amuse oneself, rejoice”), of unknown origin. Compare Middle High German begalen (“to charm; enchant”), English gale (“to sing; charm”). Compare also English gala.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈɡeɪl/, /ɹəˈɡeɪl/

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• Rhymes: -eɪl

Noun

regale (plural regales)

1. A feast, meal.

Translations

a feast, meal

• French: festin (fr) m
• German: Gastmahl (de) n
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: пир (ru) m (pir)
• Turkish: ziyafet (tr)

Verb

regale (third-person singular simple present regal, present participle ing, simple past and past participle regaled)

1. (transitive) To please or entertain (someone). [from 17th c.]
   • 2014 June 26, A. A. Dowd, “Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Spoof Rom-com Clichés in They Came Together”, in The A.V. Club‎^[1], archived from the original on 7 December 2017:

     You’ve Got Mail is certainly the basic model for the plot, which finds corporate candy shill Joel ([Paul] Rudd) and indie-sweetshop owner Molly ([Amy] Poehler) regaling their dinner companions with the very long, digressive story of how they met and fell in love.

2. (transitive) To provide hospitality for (someone); to supply with abundant food and drink. [from 17th c.]
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To feast (on, with something). [17th-19th c.]
   • 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, V:

     she hardly lets a Week pass without making the Lady Abbess and her Nuns a Visit, to regale with a Cup of burnt Brandy.

4. (figurative, transitive) To entertain with something that delights; to gratify; to refresh.

   to regale the taste, the eye, or the ear

Translations

to please someone with entertainment

• French: régaler (fr)
• German: ergötzen (de)
• Italian: dilettare (it)
• Maori: whakangahau, whakaharakoa, whakarekareka
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: весели́ть (ru) impf (veselítʹ), развлека́ть (ru) impf (razvlekátʹ)
• Spanish: regalar (es)
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} zevk-ü sefa içinde yaşamak

to provide a meal and entertainment

• Aromanian: filipsescu, uspitedz
• Dutch: onthalen (nl)
• French: régaler (fr)
• German: festlich bewirten
• Maori: taurima
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Romanian: ospăta (ro)
• Russian: угоща́ть (ru) impf (ugoščátʹ), по́тчевать (ru) impf (pótčevatʹ)
• Spanish: regalar (es)
• Turkish: ağarlamak

Anagrams

• Alegre, Eargle, Legare, Reagle, aleger

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin rēgālis, rēgālem. Doublet of reale.

Adjective

1. royal
2. regal

Related terms

• re
• regalismo
• regalità
• regalmente

Anagrams

• galere
• gelare
• gelerà
• legare
• relega

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) rēgāle

1. nominative neuter singular of rēgālis
2. accusative neuter singular of rēgālis
3. vocative neuter singular of rēgālis

References

• regale in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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Polish

Noun

regale m

1. locative singular of regał
2. vocative singular of regał

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Spanish

Verb

regale

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of regalar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of regalar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of regalar.