spirituell

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French spirituel, from Latin spiritualis.

Adjective

spirituell (neuter singular spirituelt, definite singular and plural spirituelle)

  1. spiritual
  2. bright, clever, witty

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French spirituel, from Latin spiritualis.

Adjective

spirituell (neuter singular spirituelt, definite singular and plural spirituelle)

  1. spiritual
  2. bright, clever, witty

References

Swedish

Adjective

spirituell

  1. witty, ingenious, sharp, bright, quickwitted, funny (in good spirits)
  3. spiritual (having (and placing great importance in) or concerned with religious or supernatural beliefs)

Usage notes

Religiously spiritual has traditionally been andlig. Only more recently has English usage given rise to (sense 2).

Declension

Inflection of spirituell
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular spirituell mer spirituell mest spirituell
neuter singular spirituellt mer spirituellt mest spirituellt
plural spirituella mer spirituella mest spirituella
masculine plural2 spirituelle mer spirituella mest spirituella
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 spirituelle mer spirituelle mest spirituelle
all spirituella mer spirituella mest spirituella

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

References

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