mayoral

mayor +‎ -al

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

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• Rhymes: -ɔːɹəl

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.

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

1. Alternative spelling of maïoral

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

From mayor (“mayor, main”) +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /majoˈɾal/

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.

• Spanish: mayoral

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

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

mayoral m (plural mayorales)

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

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