maestral

maestral (plural maestrals)

1. Obsolete form of mistral.

From Italian maestrale.

• IPA^(key): /maěstraːl/
• Hyphenation: ma‧e‧stral

maèstrāl m (Cyrillic spelling маѐстра̄л)

1. (meteorology) Moderately strong north-westerly wind which often blows in late afternoons during summertime in the Adriatic and Aegean seas.

• “maestral” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Inherited from Latin magistrālis (“pertaining to a teacher or master”). Doublet of magistral and mistral.

• IPA^(key): /maesˈtɾal/ [ma.esˈt̪ɾal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: ma‧es‧tral

maestral m or f (masculine and feminine plural maestrales)

1. pedagogic; teaching
2. referring to the grand master of one of the Spanish military orders

maestral m (plural maestrales)

1. mistral (wind)
2. cell of a queen bee

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