ducal

Middle French ducal, from Latin ducālis.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /djuːkəl/

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• Rhymes: -uːkəl

ducal (comparative more ducal, superlative most ducal)

1. Of or pertaining to a duke, a duchess, or the duchy or dukedom they hold.
   • 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 409:

     Ahead of the king’s coming, the Duke of Norfolk will arrive to guarantee order [...] and he will not come with an army, but only his ducal train.

• duchess
• duchy
• duke

• Claud, Dulac

• IPA^(key): [ˈdut͡sal]

ducal

1. masculine singular past active participle of ducat

Inherited from Middle French ducal, borrowed from Latin ducālis.

• IPA^(key): /dy.kal/

ducal (feminine ducale, masculine plural ducaux, feminine plural ducales)

1. ducal

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

Borrowed from Latin ducālis.

ducal m (feminine singular ducale, masculine plural ducaulx, feminine plural ducales)

1. ducal

ducal m (feminine singular ducala, masculine plural ducals, feminine plural ducalas)

1. ducal

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana‎^[1], L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2025, page 252

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: du‧cal

ducal m or f (plural ducais, not comparable)

1. ducal

• “ducal”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “ducal” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “ducal”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French ducal. By surface analysis, duce +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /duˈkal/

ducal m or n (feminine singular ducală, masculine plural ducali, feminine/neuter plural ducale)

1. ducal

• “ducal”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

• IPA^(key): /duˈkal/ [d̪uˈkal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: du‧cal

ducal m or f (masculine and feminine plural ducales)

1. ducal

• “ducal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025