unional

English

Etymology

union +‎ -al. Also, interference from German unional.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuːnjənəl/

Adjective

unional (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to a union.
   • 1843, The New Age, Concordium Gazette, & Temperance Advocate:

     When man is unional, the spirit conceives and brings forth strength, the soul listens to wisdom and is led into security, the body has issue in stedfastness and peace.

   • 1907, International Socialist Review, volume 7, page 345:

     The revolutionary action of the party is expressed through the specific means of the unional organization, consequently through the general strike , perfected with all means which revolutionary experience shall successively advise, and transfers the functions of the state to the unional organs or to the individual […]

2. (rare, relational) Pertaining to the European Union.
   • 2006, Armin von Bogdandy, “Constitutional principles of Europe”, in Eibe Riedel, Rüdiger Wolfrum, editors, Recent Trends in German and European Constitutional Law: German Reports Presented to the XVII^th International Congress on Comparative Law, Utrecht, 16 to 22 July 2006 (Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht; 188), Berlin · Heidelberg: Springer, →ISBN, page 21:

     PM Huber conceives the European principle of democracy as giving the individual through unional as well as national procedures a sufficiently effective opportunity to influence the basic decisions of European policy. […] Yet it would be a misunderstanding of the unional principle of democracy to place only the individual Union citizen in the centre. […]

   • 2011 October 12, Albrecht Weber, “The Distribution of Competences between the Union and the Member States”, in Hermann-Josef Blanke, Stelio Mangiameli, editors, The European Union after Lisbon: Constitutional Basis, Economic Order and External Action, Berlin · Heidelberg: Springer, →ISBN, page 313:

     The principle of conferral binds the EU with respect to any unional action and can be understood as a presumption in favour of the competences of the Member States.

Anagrams

• La Union

German

Etymology

Union +‎ -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /unioːˈnaːl/

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• Rhymes: -aːl

Adjective

unional (strong nominative masculine singular unionaler, not comparable)

1. (uncommon, relational) European Union
   • 2016, Andreas Piekenbrock, Florian Kienle, ZPO-Examinatorium, 2nd edition, München: Verlag Franz Vahlen, →ISBN, margin number 32, page 11:

     Aus dem Justizgewährungsanspruch folgt schließlich auch, dass in dringenden Fällen einstweiliger Rechtsschutz eröffnet wird. Dasselbe kann sich aus dem unionalen Verbraucherschutzrecht ergeben.

     From the right of access to justice, too, follows that in urgent cases interim relief is granted. The same can also ensue from the unional consumer protection law.

   • 2019 December 16, Ulrike Davy, “§ 18: Sozialpolitik der Union”, in Matthias Niedobitek, editor, Europarecht: Grundlagen und Politiken der Union, 2nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, margin number 24, page 1464:

     Wegen der Nähe zur Arbeitsförderung behandelt der Abschnitt darüber hinaus die unionale Politik mit Blick auf die berufliche Eingliederung der aus dem Arbeitsmarkt ausgegrenzten Personen, die berufliche Ausbildung und Fortbildung sowie die Beschäftigungspolitik.

     Because of the proximity to the promotion of employment the section moreover treats unional politics in respect to professional integration of the persons excluded from the employment market, vocational training and education, as well as employment policy.

Declension

Positive forms of unional (uncomparable)

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist unional	sie ist unional	es ist unional	sie sind unional
strong declension (without article)	nominative	unionaler	unionale	unionales	unionale
	genitive	unionalen	unionaler	unionalen	unionaler
	dative	unionalem	unionaler	unionalem	unionalen
	accusative	unionalen	unionale	unionales	unionale
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der unionale	die unionale	das unionale	die unionalen
	genitive	des unionalen	der unionalen	des unionalen	der unionalen
	dative	dem unionalen	der unionalen	dem unionalen	den unionalen
	accusative	den unionalen	die unionale	das unionale	die unionalen
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein unionaler	eine unionale	ein unionales	(keine) unionalen
	genitive	eines unionalen	einer unionalen	eines unionalen	(keiner) unionalen
	dative	einem unionalen	einer unionalen	einem unionalen	(keinen) unionalen
	accusative	einen unionalen	eine unionale	ein unionales	(keine) unionalen

Romanian

Etymology

From uniune +‎ -al.

Adjective

unional m or n (feminine singular unională, masculine plural unionali, feminine and neuter plural unionale)

1. related to the union – the European Union, its tariff union, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (of which the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic was a member) etc.

Declension

Declension of unional

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	unional		unională	unionali	unionale
	definite	unionalul		unionala	unionalii	unionalele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	unional		unionale	unionali	unionale
	definite	unionalului		unionalei	unionalelor	unionalilor