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English
Etymology
From French comtal. Doublet of comital, both ultimately from Latin comes.
Adjective
comtal (comparative more comtal, superlative most comtal)
- Pertaining to a count.
1803, Lockhart Muirhead, Journals of Travels, London, page 320: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.
2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 173: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.
Catalan
Adjective
comtal m or f (masculine and feminine plural comtals)
- comtal
French
Etymology
From comte + -al.
Adjective
comtal (feminine comtale, masculine plural comtaux, feminine plural comtales)
- (relational) count (rank of nobility); comtal, comital
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