ducal

Middle French ducal, from Latin ducālis.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /djuːkəl/

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• Rhymes: -uːkəl

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.

• grand ducal

• duchess
• duchy
• duke

• Claud, Dulac

Inherited from Middle French ducal, borrowed from Latin ducālis.

• IPA^(key): /dy.kal/

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

1. ducal

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

Borrowed from Latin ducālis.

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

1. ducal

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

ducal m or f (plural ducais, not comparable)

1. ducal

From French ducal.

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

1. ducal

ducal (plural ducales)

1. ducal

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