regal

• regall (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹiːɡəl/

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.

regal (comparative more regal, superlative most regal)

1. Of or having to do with royalty.

   regal authority;   the regal title

   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     He made a scorn of his regal oath.

2. 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, Lineker, Gary, Twitter‎, retrieved 2018-07-15:

     Terrific movement from The Queen here. Gets behind the defender, goes one way then cuts back inside. Regal attacking play.

• regime
• regimen

regal (plural regals)

1. (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.
   
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 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.

Derived (prob.) from OF regol (“a gutter, channel”)

• kingly
• royal
• splendid
• stately

• Agler, Alger, Elgar, Large, Ragle, ergal, glare, lager, large

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /rəˈɡal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /reˈɡal/

regal m (plural regals)

1. present; gift

• regalar

Derived from rege (“monarch, king or queen”)

Root: reg-

Morphemes: reg- +‎ -al

regal

1. regal, royal

Borrowed from Latin rēgālis. Compare the inherited reial, roial.

• IPA^(key): /reˈɡal/

regal m (oblique and nominative feminine singular regale)

1. regal

• roial

• English: regal

Borrowed from Latin rēgālis.

• IPA^(key): /reˈɡal/

regal m or n (feminine singular regală, masculine plural regali, feminine and neuter plural regale)

1. regal

• regesc

• neregal
• neregesc

• rege