negral

From Old Galician-Portuguese negral (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Proto-Ibero-Romance; equivalent to negro +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): [neˈɣɾal]

negral m or f (plural negrais)

1. dark, blackish; of a darker variety or complexion
2. (of a mill or millstone) which is used to grind rye or corn

   Antonym: albeiro

• Negral

• negro

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “negral”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “negral”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “negral”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “negral”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• IPA^(key): /neˈɡɾal/ [neˈɣ̞ɾal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: ne‧gral

negral m (plural negrales)

1. black poplar
2. Pyrenean oak

• “negral”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024