royal – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of royal

Adjective: royal

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativeroyaler; royaller
Superlativeroyalest; royallest

Perifrastic

Sample Sentences

  • He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. […] But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again her partner was haled off with a frightened look to the royal circle, […] [1909 September 9, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 9:]
  • On the first Friday morning of his kingship he went into the kitchen and called for his royal chef. [2011, Marilyn Price, Grandma's Cookies, page 7:]
  • How doth that royal Merchant good Anthonio; [c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 175, column 2:]
  • royal mast;  royal sail
  • a royal pain in the neck
  • Whoo! I'll show YOU a royal good time. [1991, Interplay Productions, Battle Chess Enhanced, spoken by the Pawn, scene: Pawn takes Queen:]
  • Maharajah and the Sepoys pits a single royal amazon for white against a standard chess army for black.

Adjectives inflected like royal

level, royal, smol,

Etymology

From Middle English royal, from Old French roial (Modern French royal), from Latin rēgālis, from rēx (“king”). Doublet of regal (“befitting a king”), real (“unit of currency”), ariary, and riyal. Cognate with Spanish real, Italian reale, Catalan reial. Displaced native Old English cynelīċ. See: Latin Adjectives 'rēgālis', Spanish Adjectives 'real', Italian Adjectives 'reale', Catalan Adjectives 'reial'.

Verbs referencing "royal"

German Adjectives royal.