mayoral

See also: Mayoral

English

Etymology

From mayor +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /meɪˈɔː.ɹəl/, /ˈmɛə.ɹəl/, /mɛːɹɘl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /meɪˈɔ.ɹəl/, /ˈmeɪ.ə.ɹəl/, /mɛːɹɘl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɔːɹəl

Adjective

mayoral (comparative more mayoral, superlative most mayoral)

1. Relating to a mayor (or the office of the mayor).

   The mayoral seal was applied to all official correspondence of the mayor.

Translations

relating to a mayor (or the office of the mayor)

• German: Bürgermeister-, bürgermeisterlich
• Hungarian: polgármesteri (hu)
• Italian: comunale (it)

French

Adjective

mayoral (feminine mayorale, masculine plural mayoraux, feminine plural mayorales)

1. Alternative spelling of maïoral

Further reading

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

Old Spanish

Etymology

From mayor (“mayor, main”) +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /majoˈɾal/

Noun

mayoral m (plural mayorales)

1. foreman, overseer
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 49r:

     […] e enbẏo amonte libano .lxxx. mil om̃s q̃ taiaſſen madera. e .lxx. mil maçoneros pora la obra de la piedra ſin los maẏorales q̃ les comendauan q̃ auien a fer.

     […] And he sent to Mount Lebanon eighty thousand men to cut wood and seventy thousand masons for the working of stone, besides the foremen who commanded them what they were to do.

Descendants

• Spanish: mayoral

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish mayoral. Analyzable as mayor +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /maʝoˈɾal/ [ma.ʝoˈɾal]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /maʝoˈɾal/ [ma.ʝoˈɾal]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /maʃoˈɾal/ [ma.ʃoˈɾal]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /maʒoˈɾal/ [ma.ʒoˈɾal]

• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: ma‧yo‧ral

Noun

mayoral m (plural mayorales)

1. farm manager, steward
2. foreman, overseer
3. head shepherd

Further reading

• “mayoral”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28