mayoral
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s
Proto-Indo-European *-yōs
Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂yōs
Proto-Italic *magjōs
Latin maior
Old French mairebor.
Middle English maire
English mayor
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
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Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
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Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English mayoral
From mayor + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more mayoral
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mayoral
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mayorals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relating to a mayor (or the office of the mayor).
pos: adj
examples: The mayoral seal was applied to all official correspondence of the mayor.
Let’s have a quick recap of some of Han’s more rational campaign pledges during last year's mayoral campaign to see how he has performed in his current position. We will leave aside things like building a Disneyland, drilling for oil off the Taiping Islands, constructing an F1 circuit, and turning Qijin Island into Taiwan’s Las Vegas — after all, these sorts of things take time to deliver.
gloss: A Spanish-speaking overseer of a bull ranch.
pos: noun
examples: A thrust of the lance, and the mayoral says bullring or slaughterhouse.
The mayoral was dressed in much the same fashion as the other men but instead of a lance he carried a short braided quirt to emphasize his almost feudal authority. As overseer of the ranch, his commands were limited to monosyllables; more frequently, he merely gestured with the quirt.
From the moment the owner and the mayoral decide to call him to the plaza the bull’s life becomes a long succession of shutters and chutes; […]
gloss: A Spanish-speaking overseer of an estate’s slaves.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The mayoral who oversees the band, / Before me now is standing, whip in hand, / The straw-hat slouching o’er his olive face, / Sturdy in figure, active in his pace; / Nor coat nor waistcoat incommode his breast.
All mayorals of this country, wear a sword about four feet long; and ride about the estate on horse back. […] The counter mayorals are only allowed a whip. They, too, as soon as promoted, with whip in hand assume a bearing and deportment towards their fellows that are cruel and sometimes barbarous; always singing out at the top of their voice. ‘Apresuran! Apresuran!’ (hasten, hasten,) and afterwards laying the whip on the backs of those that do not work as they think they ought.
When the denunciation shall have for object to reveal a talking together, or the project of some attempt by a slave or free man against the owner, his wife, son, parents, administrator or mayoral of the estate, the owner is recommended to use generosity towards the servant or servants who have so well fulfilled the duties of faithful and good servants, on account of its so much interesting them to offer a stimulus to fidelity.
Wurdemann gave an interesting account of the consequences of a suicide which he witnessed in mid-nineteenth-century Cuba. A Cuban doctor left a suicide note with the mayoral of the estate which Wurdemann was visiting, then drove off the estate and killed himself. Although the suicide note absolved the mayoral of any guilt in connection with the doctor’s death, the mayoral concealed the note from the public officer so that he would not be brought within the clutches of the law.
Kenneth Routon (2006) shares an interview with a Brillumba practitioner who speaks about the history of the Rama: […] A black Congo slave from the Carabali tribe, in a moment of rage killed the mayoral. He was tired of his abuse and so he took his machete from him and severed his head.
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