gremial

From Latin gremium (“lap, bosom”) + -al.

gremial (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the lap.

gremial (plural gremials)

1. A decorated cloth placed on a bishop's lap whilst celebrating mass or ordaining priests.
2. (obsolete) A bosom friend.
   • 1840, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge:

     These Friars living in these convents were capable of degrees, and kept their Acts, as other University-men. Yet were they gremials and not gremials, who sometimes would so stand on the tiptoes of their privileges, that they endeavoured to be higher than other students: so that oftentimes they and the scholars could not set their horses in one stable, or rather their books on one shelf.

• Gmailer, lamiger

From Latin gremiālis.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ɡɾə.miˈal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ɡɾe.miˈal/

gremial (masculine and feminine plural gremials)

1. Relating to a corporation, guild, or professional association.

• gremi

gremial m (plural gremials)

1. gremial (vestment)

• “gremial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From gremio +‎ -al.

gremial (plural gremiales)

1. (relational) labor union

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