réal

Borrowed from Spanish real. Doublet of royal.

• IPA^(key): /ʁe.al/

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réal m (plural réaux)

1. real (former currency of Spain)
2. real (currency of Brazil)

• “réal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ɾˠeːl̪ˠ/, /ɾˠeːlˠ/

From Spanish real.

• raol (obsolete)
• reul (dated)

réal m or f (genitive singular réil or réalach, nominative plural réalacha)

1. (history, numismatics) real
2. (numismatics) sixpenny bit, (old) sixpence

Alternative declension

• 1921, Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha, “Caibidil VI: Lá an Dreoilín [Chapter VI: Wren Day]”, in Jimín, Áth Cliath [Dublin]: Comhlucht Oideachais na hÉireann [Educational Company of Ireland], page 47:

  Chuamar go tigh Mhicilín Eoin agus fuaireamar réal ann. As san linn go tigh Thaidhg Óig. Bhí Tadhg Óg istigh agus bhí sé ag magadh fúinn agus á rá ná raibh ceol ná rince againn; ach nuair a bhíomar ag imeacht thug sé scilling dúinn agus thug bean a dhearthár réal dúinn.

  We went to Micilín Eoin’s house and got sixpence there. From there we went to Taidhg Óg’s house. Tadhg Óg was inside and he was making fun of us, saying that we couldn’t sing or dance; but when we were leaving he gave us a shilling and his brother’s wife gave us sixpence.

From Old Irish rélaid.

réal (present analytic réalann, future analytic réalfaidh, verbal noun réaladh, past participle réalta)

1. (transitive) make clear, manifest
2. (transitive, photography) develop

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “réal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “réal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Borrowed from Portuguese real, from Latin royal, from Latin king, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”).

réal

1. (historical, numismatics) real (former currency of Spain)

• Used to determine the weight of silver or gold. In colonial times, the réal were exchanged for 2.5 guilders.^[1]