leal

From Middle English leel, lel, borrowed from Anglo-Norman leal and Old French leial, from Latin lēgālis. Doublet of loyal and legal.

• IPA^(key): /liːl/

leal (comparative lealer, superlative lealest)

1. (now chiefly Scotland) Loyal, honest.
   • 2000, George RR Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, p. 858:

     We thank you for the pure white fire of his goodness, for the red sword of justice in his hand, for the love he bears his leal people.

2. (now only Scotland) True, genuine.
   • 1885, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, “In which are Continued the Refinements wherewith Don Quixote Played the Part of a Lover in the Sierra Morena”, in John Ormsby, transl., The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha […] In Four Vols, volume II, London: Smith, Elder & Co. […], OCLC 906154755, part I, page 30:

     The lealest lover time can show, / Doomed for a lady-love to languish, / Among these solitudes doth go, / A prey to every kind of anguish.

• Ella, Lela

From Old Portuguese, from Latin legālis. Compare legal.

leal m or f (plural leais)

1. adhering to the rules of propriety, fair, honest, loyal, true

• desleal

• lealmente

• lealdade
• lei

From Latin legālis.

leal m (feminine singular leala, masculine plural leai, feminine plural leales)

1. loyal
2. honest

• (loyal): fedel

• lege

leal m (oblique and nominative feminine singular leal)

1. Alternative form of loial

From Old Portuguese leal, from Latin legālis. Compare legal, borrowed from the same source.

leal (plural leais, comparable)

1. adhering to the rules of propriety, fair, honest, loyal, true

• desleal

• lealmente

• lealdade
• lei

From Middle English leel, lel, borrowed from Anglo-Norman leal and Old French leial, from Latin lēgālis.

• IPA^(key): /lil/

leal (comparative mair leal, superlative maist leal)

1. loyal
2. true, pure

From Old Spanish, from Latin legālis. See also the borrowed doublet legal.

• IPA^(key): /leˈal/

leal (plural leales)

1. adhering to the rules of propriety, fair, honest, loyal, true

   Synonym: fiel

• desleal

• lealmente

• lealtad
• ley

• “leal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.