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regal en · ADJ · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ˈɹiːɡəl/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English regal, 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”), real (“unit of currency”), ariary, and riyal. Cognate with Spanish real, Italian reale, Catalan reial.

Meanings

  1. Of, pertaining to, or suitable for royalty.
    • regal authority
    • the regal title
    • He made a scorn of his regal oath. 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:
  2. Befitting a monarch.
    • The [Washington] Posts 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. 2013 August 10, Lexington, “Keeping the mighty honest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
    • Terrific movement from The Queen here. Gets behind the defender, goes one way then cuts back inside. Regal attacking play. 2018 July 14, Gary Lineker, Twitter, retrieved 15 Jul 2018:
    • Kwarteng said he had urged Truss to “slow down” over reforms, but a cabinet minister told the FT that she felt “invincible, almost regal”. 2022 December 10, Harry Taylor, “Liz Truss and I ‘got carried away’ writing mini-budget, admits Kwasi Kwarteng”, in The Guardian:
  3. (qualifier:strictly) Befitting a monarch. ▸ Befitting a king or emperor.
    • In any case, the discrepancy might be explained by the fact that the 9th pylon has not yet disgorged all it blocks; it is in the talatat from this pylon that the masonry of the essentially regal (as opposed to reginal) temples Tni-mnw and Rwd-mnw predominate. 1973, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, page 78, column 2:
    • The crown seals, a regal crown and a reginal crown are unengraved, but from the motif I judge they symbolize King William III of England and Queen Mary, (see 1688, English History) who formerly ruled Holland as Prince William, Consort, and Queen Mary — The House of Orange. c. 1947, Hobbies, page 27, column 1:
    • The children to whom I acted as cicerone almost screamed with glee as they saw the four-and-twenty blackbirds emerging from the pie-crust in front of the astonished King; and when the climax of the inconsequential story was reached, by way of the regal counting house and the “reginal” parlour, and a blackbird (presumably one of the four-and-twenty that had been temporarily immured in the pie) was seen about to revenge himself on the innocent nose of the guiltless laundry-maid, a veritable climax of enthusiasm was reached. c. 1898, Truth, column 2:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
regall alternative, obsolete lexicographic
more regal Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most regal Degree=Sup lexicographic

Coordinates

reginal

Deriveds

unregal · regal geranium · regal horned lizard · regal fritillary · regalist · viceregal · regality · regal lily · regal purple · regalness · regalism · interregal · regally · regal moth · regal sea goddess · superregal

Relateds

splendid · kingly · regimen · royal · stately · regime · regular

Translations (49)

fr régalien (befitting a king) · pt real (of or having to do with royalty) · ga ríoga (of or having to do with royalty) · cmn 皇家的 (of or having to do with royalty) · de majestätisch (of or having to do with royalty) · fi kuninkaallinen (of or having to do with royalty) · cmn 帝王的 (befitting a king) · yue 高貴的 /高贵的 (befitting a king) · gd rìoghail (of or having to do with royalty) · mk кралски (of or having to do with royalty) · es regio (of or having to do with royalty) · bg кра́лски (of or having to do with royalty) · ar مَلَكِيّ (of or having to do with royalty) · fi kuninkaallinen (befitting a king) · ru короле́вский (of or having to do with royalty) · pt régio (befitting a king) · bg ца́рски (of or having to do with royalty) · ml രാജകീയ (of or having to do with royalty) · de königlich (of or having to do with royalty) · mk царски (of or having to do with royalty) · ca reial (of or having to do with royalty) · cmn 國王的 /国王的 (befitting a king) · be карале́ўскі (of or having to do with royalty) · es real (of or having to do with royalty) · pt real (befitting a king) · mk ца́рски (befitting a king) · eo reĝa (of or having to do with royalty) · bn শাহানা (of or having to do with royalty) · ga ríoga (befitting a king) · es real (befitting a king) · ru короле́вский (befitting a king) · hu királyi (of or having to do with royalty) · la rēgālis (of or having to do with royalty) · ro regal (of or having to do with royalty) · got 𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍃 (of or having to do with royalty) · cmn 莊嚴的 /庄严的 (of or having to do with royalty) · yue 皇室的 (of or having to do with royalty) · grc βασιλικός (of or having to do with royalty) · mk кра́лски (befitting a king) · be карале́ўскі (befitting a king) · gd rìoghail (befitting a king) · yue 莊嚴的 /庄严的 (of or having to do with royalty) · sh kraljevski (of or having to do with royalty) · pt régio (of or having to do with royalty) · es realengo (of or having to do with royalty) · fr régalien (of or having to do with royalty) · ro regal (befitting a king) · fi ruhtinaallinen (befitting a king) · es regio (befitting a king)

regal en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /ˈɹiːɡəl/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English regal, from Middle French régale, possibly from Old French regol (“a gutter, channel”). Doublet of rail, regula, rigol, and rule.

Meanings

  1. A small, portable organ whose sound is produced by brass beating reeds without amplifying resonators. Its tone is keen and rich in harmonics. The regal was common in the 16th and 17th centuries, and has been revived for the performance of music from those times.
  2. 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 16th and 17th centuries these stops took a multitude of forms. Today only one survives that is of universal currency, the so-called vox humana.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
regall alternative, obsolete lexicographic
rigole alternative lexicographic
regals Number=Plur lexicographic

Translations (12)

es regal (small, portable organ) · it regale (small, portable organ) · nl regaal (small, portable organ) · de Regal (small, portable organ) · it rigabello (small, portable organ) · ja レガール (small, portable organ) · el ρεγκάλ (small, portable organ) · fr régale (small, portable organ) · da regal (small, portable organ) · pl regał (small, portable organ) · es órgano de regalía (small, portable organ) · sv regal (small, portable organ)