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comtal

comtal adjective: pertaining to a count.

Adjective

comtal (comparative more comtal, superlative most comtal)

  1. Pertaining to a count.
    • The eight principal magistrates, or Capitouls, acquire nobility in virtue of their election, transmit it to their posterity, and are the only municipal officers in the kingdom who are entitled to wear the Comtal robe.1803, Lockhart Muirhead, Journals of Travels, London, page 320
    • In the early twelfth century its heiress married an obscure knight called Guillem Ramón (1090-1173), who rose to be ‘Great Seneschal’ at the comtal court.2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 173

Forms of comtal

comparativemore comtal
superlativemost comtal

Origin of comtal

Borrowed from French comtal, from oblique stem of Latin comes, comitis (“count, earl, companion, comrade”) + -al. Doublet of comital.

Questions about comtal

What does comtal mean?
Comtal means pertaining to a count.
What part of speech is comtal?
Comtal is an adjective.

Words near comtal in the dictionary

  1. COMSUBPAC
  2. COMSUBPACs
  3. comsymp
  4. comsymps
  5. COMT
  6. comtal
  7. comte
  8. Comtean
  9. comtech
  10. comtes
  11. comtesse

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