menstrual

• menstruall (obsolete)
• menstral (nonstandard, possibly proscribed)

From Middle English menstruall, from Latin mēnstruālis, from mēnstrua (“menses”), from neuter plural of mēnstruus (“of a month, monthly, of menstruation”), from mēnsis (“month”) + -ālis (“-al”); see moon.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛn.stɹu.əl/, /ˈmɛn.stɹəl/ (the latter pronunciation leading to the spelling menstral)

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• Hyphenation: men‧stru‧al

menstrual (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the menses.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 96:

     Recent studies in physiology have noted that women who live in close proximity to one another - nurses in a hospital or coeds in a college dormitory - tend to have their menstrual periods at the same time.

2. (dated) Occurring once a month; monthly.
3. (dated) Lasting for a month.

   a menstrual flower

• catamenial
• mensal
• menstruous

menstrual (plural menstruals)

1. (colloquial) A menstrual period.
   • 2012, Miryom Willis, Shirley Fisher, Trials, Tragedy, Triumphs, page 11:

     “All that drama for what” I thought. All she had to do was tell me that I was having my menstrual. So much for band aids.

• Ulsterman, must-learn

Borrowed from Latin mēnstruālis.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [məns.tɾuˈal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [mens.tɾuˈal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Hyphenation: mens‧tru‧al

menstrual m or f (masculine and feminine plural menstruals)

1. menstrual

• menstru
• menstruació
• menstruar

• “menstrual”, 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
• “menstrual”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “menstrual” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “menstrual” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Learned borrowing from Latin mēnstruālis.^[1][2] By surface analysis, mênstruo +‎ -al.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: mens‧tru‧al

menstrual m or f (plural menstruais)

1. menstrual (relating to menstruation)

• mês
• menstruar

Borrowed from Latin menstrualis.

menstrual m or n (feminine singular menstruală, masculine plural menstruali, feminine and neuter plural menstruale)

1. menstrual

From Latin mēnstruālis.

• IPA^(key): /mensˈtɾwal/ [mẽnsˈt̪ɾwal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: mens‧trual

menstrual m or f (masculine and feminine plural menstruales)

1. menstrual (relating to menstruation)

• “menstrual”, 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