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comtal en · ADJ

Etymology

Borrowed from French comtal, from oblique stem of Latin comes, comitis (“count, earl, companion, comrade”) + -al. Doublet of comital.

Meanings

1. Pertaining to a count.
   • The eight principal magistrates, or Capitouls, acquire nobility in virtue of their election, transmit it to their posterity, and are the only municipal officers in the kingdom who are entitled to wear the Comtal robe. 1803, Lockhart Muirhead, Journals of Travels, London, page 320:
   • In the early twelfth century its heiress married an obscure knight called Guillem Ramón (1090-1173), who rose to be ‘Great Seneschal’ at the comtal court. 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 173:

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