Dictionary Definition
genial adj
1 diffusing warmth and friendliness; "an affable
smile"; "an amiable gathering"; "cordial relations"; "a cordial
greeting"; "a genial host" [syn: affable, amiable, cordial]
2 of or relating to the chin or median part of
the lower jaw [syn: mental]
3 conducive to comfort; beneficial; "the genial
sunshine"; "a kind climate"; "hot summer pavements are anything but
kind to the feet" [syn: kind]
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English
Pronunciation
Adjective
- friendly and cheerful.
- In the context of "of weather": pleasantly mild and warm.
Translations
friendly and cheerful
- Finnish: ystävällinen, sydämellinen
pleasantly mild and warm
- Finnish: leuto, leppeä
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Spanish
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Extensive Definition
Genial, Genialis, or Genealis was the Duke of
Gascony (Vasconia)
from 602 to his
death in 627.
The chief source for his existence is Fredegar.
Genial was probably a Frank or a Gallo-Roman
when Theuderic II
and Theudebert
II appointed him dux
over the Basques
(Vascones) of southwestern Aquitaine:
Some scholars believe Genial was more of a tribal
leader over whom the Frankish sovereigns exercised a vague
suzerainty than a Frankish court official sent to the outskirts of
the realm to lord it over a subject people. Sometime around
612, Sisebut, king of
the Visigoths,
recaptured the transpyrenean portion of his realm. He was succeeded
by Aeghyna.
Notes
Sources
- Collins, Roger. The Basques. Blackwell Publishing: London, 1990.
- Wallace-Hadrill, J. M., translator. The Fourth Book of the Chronicle of Fredegar with its Continuations. Greenwood Press: Connecticut, 1960.
- Lewis, Archibald R. "The Dukes in the Regnum Francorum, A.D. 550-751." Speculum, Vol. 51, No. 3. (Jul., 1976), pp. 381-410.
- Auñamendi Encyclopedia: Ducado de Vasconia.
- Monlezun, Jean Justin. Histoire de la Gascogne. 1846.
- Higounet, Charles. Bordeaux pendant le haut moyen age. Bordeaux, 1963.
genial in Spanish: Genial de
Vasconia
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abiogenetic, aestival, affable, agreeable, amiable, amicable, ardent, beaming, biogenetic, blastogenetic, blissful, blithe, blithesome, blood-hot,
blood-warm, bonhomous,
bright, bright and sunny,
calid, cheerful, cheery, civil, clubbable, clubbish, clubby, communicative, companionable, companionate, compatible, complaisant, congenial, convivial, cordial, courteous, desirable, dulcet, easy, easy-natured, easygoing, elated, en rapport, enjoyable, epigenetic, equatorial, eumerogenetic, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, exhilarated, fair, fair and pleasant, felicific, felicitous, fine, fit for society, flushed, fond of society,
friendly, gametic, generative, generous, genetic, genital, genitive, gentle, glad, gladsome, glowing, good, good-humored, good-natured,
good-tempered, goodly,
gracious, grateful, gratifying, gregarious, happy, harmonious, heart-warming,
hearty, heterogenetic, high, histogenetic, homogenetic, honeyed, hopeful, hospitable, in good spirits,
in high spirits, irrepressible, isogenetic, jocund, jolly, jovial, kind, kindly, laughing, liberal, likable, luke, lukewarm, mellifluous, mellow, merogenetic, merry, metagenetic, mild, monogenetic, neighborly, nice, of good cheer, open, openhearted, optimistic, orthogenetic, pangenetic, parthenogenetic,
phytogenetic,
pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable,
pleasure-giving, pleasureful, radiant, receptive, relaxed, rewarding, riant, room-temperature, rosy, sanguine, sanguineous, satisfying, smiling, sociable, social, social-minded, sparkling, sporogenous, subtropical, summery, sunny, sunshiny, sweet, sweet-tempered, temperate, tepid, thermal, thermic, toasty, tropical, unfrozen, urbane, warm, warm as toast, warmhearted, warmish, welcome, welcoming, well-disposed,
well-natured, winsome,
xenogenetic