banal

Borrowed from French banal, from Medieval Latin bannalis (“pertaining to compulsory feudal service, applied especially to mills, wells, ovens, etc., used in common by people of the lower classes, upon the command of a feudal superior; hence, common, commonplace”), from bannum (“command, proclamation”). See also ban, abandon.

• enPR: bə-näl', IPA^(key): /bəˈnɑːl/
• Rhymes: -ɑːl
• enPR: bān'əl, IPA^(key): /ˈbeɪnəl/
• Rhymes: -eɪnəl
• enPR: bə-năl', IPA^(key): /bəˈnæl/
• Rhymes: -æl

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banal (comparative more banal or banaler, superlative most banal or banalest)

1. Common in a boring way, to the point of being predictable; containing nothing new or fresh.

• See also Thesaurus:hackneyed

• new
• original

• banality
• banalize
• banally

• banal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• banal in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• Alban, Balan, Laban, Nabal, alban, laban, nabal, nabla

banal m

1. bramble
2. broom (a plant, sp. Genista)

From French banal.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /bəˈnal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /baˈnal/

banal (masculine and feminine plural banals)

1. banal (common in a boring way)

• “banal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “banal” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “banal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “banal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From ban +‎ -al, related to Medieval Latin bannalis, from bannum.

• IPA^(key): /ba.nal/

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• Homophones: banale, banals, banales

banal (feminine singular banale, masculine plural banals, feminine plural banales)

1. banal; commonplace

banal (feminine singular banale, masculine plural banaux, feminine plural banales)

1. (law) public
2. (historical) relating to facilities owned by feudal lords

   un four banal, un moulin banal ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• banalité

• “banal” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
• Banalité (droit seigneurial) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

• Alban

From French banal, from Medieval Latin bannalis, from bannum.

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• Rhymes: -aːl

banal (comparative banaler, superlative am banalsten)

1. banal

• banal in Duden online

From Malay banal, from Dutch banaal, from French banal, from Medieval Latin bannalis, from bannum.

banal

1. banal (common)

banal (masculine banalen, neuter banaalt, comparative méi banal, superlative am banaalsten)

1. banal

From Dutch banaal, from French banal, from Medieval Latin bannalis, from bannum.

• IPA^(key): /banal/
• Rhymes: -anal, -nal, -al

banal

1. banal (common)

   Synonym: basi

banal m or f (plural banais, comparable)

1. banal (common)
2. hackneyed (repeated too often)

   Synonyms: batido, trivial

From French banal, from Medieval Latin bannalis, from bannum.

• IPA^(key): /baˈnal/

banal (plural banales)

1. banal

• “banal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

banal

1. pious