ducal

English

Etymology

Middle French ducal, from Latin ducālis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /djuːkəl/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːkəl

Adjective

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.

Derived terms

• ducally
• grand ducal
• unducal

 

Related terms

• duchess
• duchy
• duke

Translations

relating to a duke or duchess

• Arabic: دُوقِيّ (dūqiyy)
• Dutch: hertogelijk (nl)
• French: ducal (fr)
• Friulian: ducâl
• German: herzoglich
• Italian: ducale
• Latin: ducālis
• Macedonian: војводски (vojvodski)
• Portuguese: ducal (pt)
• Spanish: ducal (es)
• Swedish: hertiglig

See also

• baronial
• comital
• kingly
• margravial
• noble
• princely
• regal
• royal
• vicontiel
• viscomital

 

Anagrams

• Claud, Dulac

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French ducal, borrowed from Latin ducālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dy.kal/

Adjective

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

1. ducal

Further reading

• “ducal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ducālis.

Adjective

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

1. ducal

Occitan

Adjective

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

1. ducal

Further reading

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 252.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /duˈkaw/ [duˈkaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /duˈkal/ [duˈkaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /duˈkal/ [duˈkaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /duˈka.li/

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

Adjective

ducal m or f (plural ducais, not comparable)

1. ducal

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duˈkal/

Adjective

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

1. ducal

Declension

		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

Further reading

• ducal in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

ducal m or f (masculine and feminine plural ducales)

1. ducal

Further reading

• “ducal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28