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Primatal vs Primatial - What's the difference?

primatal | primatial |

As adjectives the difference between primatal and primatial

is that primatal is pertaining to primates while primatial is of or pertaining to a primate.

As a noun primatal

is a primate.

primatal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (zoology, rare) Pertaining to primates.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) A primate.
  • *1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 346:
  • *:‘She was twelve,’ Van added, ‘and I was a male primatal of fourteen and a half, and we just did not care.’

    • primatial

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (ecclesiastical) Of or pertaining to a primate.
  • *2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 672:
  • *:The Inquisition even ruined the career of Bartolomé Carranza, Archbishop of Spain's primatial see of Toledo, and a distinguished Dominican theologian.

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