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banal

adj
/bəˈnɑːl/

Etymology

Borrowed from French banal (“held in common, relating to feudal service, by extension commonplace”), from Old French banel, related to Medieval Latin bannālis (“subject to feudal authority”), from Latin bannus (“jurisdiction”), both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bannaną (“to order, summon, forbid”). Equivalent to ban + -al. See also ban, abandon.

  1. derived from *bannaną✻ — “to order, summon, forbid”
  2. derived from bannus — “jurisdiction”
  3. derived from bannālis — “subject to feudal authority”
  4. derived from banel
  5. borrowed from banal — “held in common, relating to feudal service, by extension commonplace”

Definitions

  1. Common in a boring way, to the point of being predictable

    Common in a boring way, to the point of being predictable; containing nothing new or fresh.

    • banal clichés
    • banal conversation
    • sound banal

  2. Relating to a type of feudal jurisdiction or service.

    • They arrived in 1732, and were distributed gratis to the more important banal mills.
    • French historians have viewed these policies as efforts to replace the banal authority inherited from the Carolingians […]
    • To what extent were banal lords accountable to a prince or a king for their unrestricted exercise of public authority?

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA