PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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No. The reported ancestry and first English sense are monarch-centered; magnificence is a semantic extension.
/ˈrɔɪəl/ · adjective
Of a monarch, crown, or kingdom; borrowed through Anglo-French from Latin rēgālis and rēx.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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Places monarch senses at the first reported English horizon.
Definitions, etymology, and First Known UseIndependently preserves the monarch-centered ancestry.
Headword definitions and etymologyThe modern evaluative sense remains visible as an extension.