maestral

maestral (plural maestrals)

1. Obsolete form of mistral.

From Italian maestrale.

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

maèstrāl m inan (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 [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024