dialectal

From dialect +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /ˌdaɪəˈlɛktəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: di‧a‧lec‧tal

dialectal (comparative more dialectal, superlative most dialectal)

1. Of or relating to a dialect.
2. Peculiar to a (nonstandard) variety or lect.
   • 1908, “lay v.¹”, in James A. H. Murray et al., editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VI, Part 1, London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 128:

     Now (exc. in Nautical language, see b) it is only dialectal or an illiterate substitute for lie, its identity of form with the past tense of the latter no doubt accounting largely for the confusion.

• “dialectal”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “dialect”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “dialect”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “dialectal”, in Collins English Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /djalekˈtal/
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: dia‧lec‧tal

dialectal (epicene, plural dialectales)

1. Alternative form of dialeutal.

From dialecte +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)
• Hyphenation: di‧a‧lec‧tal

dialectal m or f (masculine and feminine plural dialectals)

1. dialectal

• “dialectal”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies , 2007 April
• “dialectal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “dialectal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “dialectal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From dialecte +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /dja.lɛk.tal/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: dia‧lec‧tal

dialectal (feminine dialectale, masculine plural dialectaux, feminine plural dialectales)

1. dialectal

   Le lituanien comporte deux grands groupes dialectaux.

   Lithuanian consists of two large dialectal groups.

• “dialectal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• dialectau (Gascony, Limousin, Provençal)

dialectal m (feminine singular dialectala, masculine plural dialectals, feminine plural dialectalas)

1. dialectal

• dialècte

dialectal m or f (plural dialectais)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of dialetal. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.

Borrowed from French dialectal.

• IPA^(key): /dialekˈtal/

dialectal m or n (feminine singular dialectală, masculine plural dialectali, feminine and neuter plural dialectale)

1. dialectal

• dialectalism

From dialecto +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /djaleɡˈtal/
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: dia‧lec‧tal

dialectal m or f (masculine and feminine plural dialectales)

1. dialectal

• “dialectal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , 2024 December 10