dialectal

From dialect + -al.

• IPA^(key): /ˌdaɪəˈlɛktəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: di‧a‧lec‧tal

dialectal (comparative more dialectal, superlative most dialectal)

1. Of or relating to a dialect.
2. Peculiar to a (nonstandard) variety or lect.
   • 1908, “lay v.¹”, in James A. H. Murray et al., editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VI, Part 1, London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 128:

     Now (exc. in Nautical language, see b) it is only dialectal or an illiterate substitute for lie, its identity of form with the past tense of the latter no doubt accounting largely for the confusion.

• “dialectal”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “dialect”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “dialect”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “dialectal”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.

• IPA^(key): /djalekˈtal/ [d̪ja.lekˈt̪al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: dia‧lec‧tal

dialectal (epicene, plural dialectales)

1. alternative form of dialeutal

From dialecte +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [di.ə.ləkˈtal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [di.a.lekˈtal]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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• Hyphenation: di‧a‧lec‧tal

dialectal m or f (masculine and feminine plural dialectals)

1. dialectal

• “dialectal”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “dialectal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “dialectal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “dialectal”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

From dialecte +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /dja.lɛk.tal/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Hyphenation: dia‧lec‧tal

dialectal (feminine dialectale, masculine plural dialectaux, feminine plural dialectales)

1. dialectal

   Le lituanien comporte deux grands groupes dialectaux.

   Lithuanian consists of two large dialectal groups.

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

• dialectau (Gascony, Limousin, Provençal)

dialectal m (feminine singular dialectala, masculine plural dialectals, feminine plural dialectalas)

1. dialectal

• dialècte

dialectal m or f (plural dialectais)

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of dialetal; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling

• “dialectal”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French dialectal. By surface analysis, dialect + -al.

• IPA^(key): /dialekˈtal/

dialectal m or n (feminine singular dialectală, masculine plural dialectali, feminine/neuter plural dialectale)

1. dialectal

• dialectalism

From dialecto + -al.

• IPA^(key): /djaleɡˈtal/ [d̪ja.leɣ̞ˈt̪al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: dia‧lec‧tal

dialectal m or f (masculine and feminine plural dialectales)

1. dialectal

• “dialectal”, 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