Etymology

From state +‎ -alCategory:English terms suffixed with -al#STATAL.

Adjective

statal (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#STATALCategory:English adjectives#STATALCategory:English uncomparable adjectives#STATALCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#STATALCategory:Pages with entries#STATALCategory:Pages with 3 entries#STATAL

1. Relating to a state or condition.
2. Resulting from structural considerations as opposed to actions.
   • 2004, Ros Edwards, Children, Home and School: Regulation, Autonomy Or Connection?, →ISBN:

     Finally, implications for future policy and practice in relation to respect, trust, and students' rights are considered, with the possibility of increasing connection and reducing social exclusion by thinking in new terms of addressing statal exclusions through participation rights.

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3. (linguisticsCategory:en:Linguistics#STATAL) Pertaining to a word or word form (such as a passive verb or a modifier) or other linguistic element that denotes a state rather than an action or process.
   • 1971, Manindra K. Verma, The Structure of the Noun Phrase in English and Hindi, page 160:

     All (pre-nominal) participial modifiers in Hindi have a statal meaning whether or not they involve a statal verb (something like “in the state of sleeping / having slept / running / eating / having been washed”, etc.).

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4. (usually in combination) Pertaining to a state within a federal government.
   • 1879, Albion W. Tourgée, A Fool's Errand, by One of the Fools:

     Every element of a State of the American Union remained, except this statal relation to the Union

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   • 2003, Dave Ramsaran, “Understanding the Socio-Cultural Dynamics of Globalisation: The Case of Bananas in St Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines”, in Cynthia Barrow-Giles, ‎Don D. Marshall, editor, Living at the Borderlines: Issues in Caribbean Sovereignty and Development, page 96:

     The theoretical position adopted here suggest ^[sic] that this process is in fact a contradictory one, and includes three levels — supra-statal, statal and intra-statal levels, and within each level there are two dimensions; ^[sic] the transnational political organisations and a new global culture.

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Anagrams

• Lattas, at last

Adjective

statal (not comparable)Category:Interlingua lemmas#STATALCategory:Interlingua adjectives#STATALCategory:Interlingua entries with incorrect language header#STATALCategory:Pages with entries#STATALCategory:Pages with 3 entries#STATAL

1. statal, pertaining to a (member) state of a federation, confederacy or union

Etymology

Borrowed from ItalianCategory:Romanian terms borrowed from Italian#STATALCategory:Romanian terms derived from Italian#STATAL statale. By surface analysis, stat +‎ -alCategory:Romanian terms suffixed with -al#STATAL.

Adjective

statal m or n (feminine singular statală, masculine plural statali, feminine/neuter plural statale)Category:Romanian lemmas#STATALCategory:Romanian adjectives#STATALCategory:Romanian entries with incorrect language header#STATALCategory:Pages with entries#STATALCategory:Pages with 3 entries#STATAL

1. (relationalCategory:Romanian relational adjectives#STATAL) state, government