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ducal

English edit

Etymology edit

Middle French ducal, from Latin ducālis.

Pronunciation edit

  • (UK) IPA(key): /djuːkəl/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -uːkəl

Adjective edit

ducal (comparative more ducal, superlative most ducal)

  1. Of or pertaining to a duke, a duchess, or the duchy or dukedom they hold.
    • 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 409:
      Ahead of the king’s coming, the Duke of Norfolk will arrive to guarantee order [...] and he will not come with an army, but only his ducal train.

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French edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Middle French ducal, borrowed from Latin ducālis.

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ducal (feminine ducale, masculine plural ducaux, feminine plural ducales)

  1. ducal

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Middle French edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin ducālis.

Adjective edit

ducal m (feminine singular ducale, masculine plural ducaulx, feminine plural ducales)

  1. ducal

Occitan edit

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ducal m (feminine singular ducala, masculine plural ducals, feminine plural ducalas)

  1. ducal

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Portuguese edit

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  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: du‧cal

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ducal m or f (plural ducais, not comparable)

  1. ducal

Further reading edit

  • “ducal” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French ducal. By surface analysis, duce +‎ -al.

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ducal m or n (feminine singular ducală, masculine plural ducali, feminine and neuter plural ducale)

  1. ducal

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Declension of ducal
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite ducal ducală ducali ducale
definite ducalul ducala ducalii ducalele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite ducal ducale ducali ducale
definite ducalului ducalei ducalilor ducalelor

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Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /duˈkal/ [d̪uˈkal]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: du‧cal

Adjective edit

ducal m or f (masculine and feminine plural ducales)

  1. ducal

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