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Comital vs Comtal - What's the difference?

comital | comtal |

As adjectives the difference between comital and comtal

is that comital is of or pertaining to a count or earl while comtal is pertaining to a count.

comital

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • of or pertaining to a count or earl

    • References

    * OED 2nd edition 1989

    comtal

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to a count.
  • *1803 , (Lockhart Muirhead), Journals of Travels , London 1803, p. 320:
  • *:The eight principal magistrates, or Capitouls , acquire nobility in virtue of their election, transmit it to their posterity, and are the only municipal officers in the kingdom who are entitled to wear the Comtal robe.
  • *2011 , (Norman Davies), Vanished Kingdoms , Penguin 2012, p. 173:
  • *:In the early twelfth century its heiress married an obscure knight called Guillem Ramón (1090-1173), who rose to be ‘Great Seneschal’ at the comtal court.