maestral

English

Noun

maestral (plural maestrals)

1. Obsolete form of mistral.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Italian maestrale.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maěstraːl/
• Hyphenation: ma‧e‧stral

Noun

maèstrāl m (Cyrillic spelling маѐстра̄л)

1. (meteorology) Moderately strong north-westerly wind which often blows in late afternoons during summertime in the Adriatic and Aegean seas.

Declension

Declension of maestral

	singular
nominative	maestral
genitive	maestrala
dative	maestralu
accusative	maestral
vocative	maestrale
locative	maestralu
instrumental	maestralom

References

• “maestral” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin magistrālis (“pertaining to a teacher or master”). Doublet of magistral and mistral.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maesˈtɾal/ [ma.esˈt̪ɾal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: ma‧es‧tral

Adjective

maestral m or f (masculine and feminine plural maestrales)

1. pedagogic; teaching
2. referring to the grand master of one of the Spanish military orders

Noun

maestral m (plural maestrales)

1. mistral (wind)
2. cell of a queen bee

Further reading

• “maestral”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014