gremial
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin gremiālis.
Adjective
editgremial (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the lap.
Noun
editgremial (plural gremials)
- A decorated cloth placed on a bishop's lap whilst celebrating mass or ordaining priests.
- (obsolete) A bosom friend.
- 1840, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge:
- These Friars living in these convents were capable of degrees, and kept their Acts, as other University-men. Yet were they gremials and not gremials, who sometimes would so stand on the tiptoes of their privileges, that they endeavoured to be higher than other students: so that oftentimes they and the scholars could not set their horses in one stable, or rather their books on one shelf.
Anagrams
editCatalan
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin gremiālis.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editgremial m or f (masculine and feminine plural gremials)
Related terms
editNoun
editgremial m (plural gremials)
- gremial (vestment)
Further reading
edit- “gremial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Spanish
editEtymology
editAdjective
editgremial m or f (masculine and feminine plural gremiales)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “gremial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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