gremial
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin gremiālis.
Adjective edit
gremial (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the lap.
Noun edit
gremial (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 edit
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin gremiālis.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
gremial m or f (masculine and feminine plural gremials)
Related terms edit
Noun edit
gremial m (plural gremials)
- gremial (vestment)
Further reading edit
- “gremial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
gremial m or f (masculine and feminine plural gremiales)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “gremial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014