regal

/ˈɹiːɡəl/

Etymology

From Middle English regal, from Old French regal (“regal, royal”), from Latin rēgālis (“royal, kingly”), from rex (“king”); also regere (“to rule”). Doublet of royal (“belonging to a monarch”), real (“unit of currency”), ariary, and riyal. Cognate with Spanish real, Italian reale, Catalan reial.

regal means of, pertaining to, or suitable for royalty. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 59 out of 100.

Why this word is great

REGAL — [Adjective] Pertaining to, or suitable for a monarch, especially in being magnificent or dignified. From Middle English regal, from Old French regal, from Latin rēgālis ("royal, kingly"), from rex ("king"). Unlike "royal," which denotes an institutional connection, or "majestic," which describes impersonal scale, regal is the performed aura of innate sovereignty. It is the unflinching stillness of a heron in a reedbed, the severe geometry of a marble bust on its plinth, the way light falls across an empty, high-backed chair in a silent room. It is dignity worn not as a crown, but as a spine—a quiet assertion that true sovereignty is a condition of the spirit.

adj

Of, pertaining to, or suitable for royalty.“regal authority”
Befitting a monarch.“The [Washington] Posts proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal' Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.”
Befitting a monarch.; Befitting a king or emperor.“The children to whom I acted as cicerone almost screamed with glee as they saw the four-and-twenty blackbirds emerging from the pie-crust in front of the astonished King; and when the climax of the inconsequential story was reached, by way of the regal counting house and the “reginal” parlour, and a blackbird (presumably one of the four-and-twenty that had been temporarily immured in the pie) was ”

noun

A small, portable organ whose sound is produced by brass beating reeds without amplifying resonators. Its tone is keen and rich in harmonics. The regal was common in the 16th and 17th centuries, and has been revived for the performance of music from those times.
An organ stop of the reed family, furnished with a normal beating reed, but whose resonator is a fraction of its natural length. In the 16th and 17th centuries these stops took a multitude of forms. Today only one survives that is of universal currency, the so-called vox humana.