English edit

Etymology edit

From French comtal. Doublet of comital, both ultimately from Latin comes.

Adjective edit

comtal (comparative more comtal, superlative most comtal)

  1. Pertaining to a count.
    • 1803, Lockhart Muirhead, Journals of Travels, London, page 320:
      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.
    • 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 173:
      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.

Catalan edit

Adjective edit

comtal m or f (masculine and feminine plural comtals)

  1. comtal

French edit

Etymology edit

From comte +‎ -al.

Adjective edit

comtal (feminine comtale, masculine plural comtaux, feminine plural comtales)

  1. (relational) count (rank of nobility); comtal, comital

Further reading edit