policial

From police +‎ -ial.

policial (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Relating to the police.
   • 1845, Edgar Allan Poe, The Purloined Letter:

     [W]here the case is of importance—or, what amounts to the same thing in the policial eyes, when the reward is of magnitude, the qualities in question have never been known to fail.

From policia +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [pu.li.siˈal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [po.li.siˈal]

policial m or f (masculine and feminine plural policials)

1. (relational) police

   Synonym: policíac

• brutalitat policial

• “policial”, 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
• “policial”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “policial” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

• Hyphenation: po‧li‧ci‧al

policial m or f (plural policiais)

1. (relational) police

policial m or f by sense (plural policiais)

1. (Brazil) police officer

   Synonyms: polícia, guarda

• parapolicial

• polícia
• policiamento
• policiar

From policía +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /poliˈθjal/ [po.liˈθjal] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /poliˈsjal/ [po.liˈsjal] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: po‧li‧cial

policial m or f (masculine and feminine plural policiales)

1. (Spain) Related to the police, police force

   Synonyms: policíaco, policiaco

2. police procedural

   Synonym: de policías

3. whodunit, whodunnit (UK)

   Synonyms: policíaco, policiaco

• In a novel, drama, film or series, policial is more to refer to police procedural and policiaco/policíaco to whodunit.

• (whodunit): novela policiaca f, serie de televisión policíaca f
• parapolicial
• policialmente

• “policial”, 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