interior
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin interior (“inner, interior”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪnˈtɪə.ɹɪ.ə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪnˈtɪ.ɹi.ɚ/
Audio (GA) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: in‧ter‧i‧or
Adjective edit
interior (not comparable)
- Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.
- the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball
- Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland.
- the interior parts of a region or country
Alternative forms edit
- interiour (obsolete)
Antonyms edit
Derived terms edit
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Noun edit
interior (plural interiors)
- The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.
- The gardens are just divine, but the interior of the house are even more splendid.
- The inside regions of a country, distanced from the borders or coasts.
- Sir Richard Burton explored far into the African interior.
- (mathematics, topology) The set of all interior points of a set.
Antonyms edit
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Further reading edit
- interior (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams edit
Asturian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
interior m (plural interiores)
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin interiōrem.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Central) [in.tə.ɾiˈor]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [in.tə.ɾiˈo]
- IPA(key): (Valencian) [in.te.ɾiˈoɾ]
Adjective edit
interior m or f (masculine and feminine plural interiors)
Noun edit
interior m (plural interiors)
Further reading edit
- “interior” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “interior”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “interior” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “interior” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
interior m or f (plural interiores)
Noun edit
interior m (plural interiores)
Antonyms edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From the earlier *interus (whence also intrā), from the Proto-Indo-European *h₁énteros (“inner, what is inside”). Cognates include the Sanskrit अन्तर (ántara, “interior”) and the Ancient Greek ἔντερον (énteron, “intestine, bowel”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /inˈte.ri.or/, [ɪn̪ˈt̪ɛriɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /inˈte.ri.or/, [in̪ˈt̪ɛːrior]
Adjective edit
interior (neuter interius); third declension
Usage notes edit
Although this adjective is the comparative form of inter, there is no positive form. The word inter is an adverb and preposition, not an adjective.
Declension edit
Third-declension comparative adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
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Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | interior | interius | interiōrēs | interiōra | |
Genitive | interiōris | interiōrum | |||
Dative | interiōrī | interiōribus | |||
Accusative | interiōrem | interius | interiōrēs | interiōra | |
Ablative | interiōre | interiōribus | |||
Vocative | interior | interius | interiōrēs | interiōra |
Descendants edit
References edit
- “interior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “interior”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- interior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the interior of Asia: interior Asia; interiora Asiae
- profound scientific education: litterae interiores et reconditae, artes reconditae
- the interior of Asia: interior Asia; interiora Asiae
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin interiōrem.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: in‧te‧ri‧or
Adjective edit
interior m or f (plural interiores)
- inner; interior (located in the inside)
- Antonym: exterior
- Não comemos os olhos nem os órgãos interiores.
- We don’t eat the eyes nor the inner organs.
Noun edit
interior m (plural interiores)
- interior; inside
- Antonym: exterior
- Tirei uma bola do interior da caixa.
- I took out a ball from interior the box.
- country; countryside; interior (regions outside major cities)
Usage notes edit
Generally speaking, any part of a Brazilian state that is not in or near its capital or coast is the state's interior. Alternatively, people from smaller cities tend to consider only smaller towns interior, those from small villages tend to consider only places without any collective settlement interior, and so on.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French intérieur.
Noun edit
interior n (plural interiori)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) interior | interiorul | (niște) interiori | interiorile |
genitive/dative | (unui) interior | interiorului | (unor) interiori | interiorilor |
vocative | interiorule | interiorilor |
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
interior m or f (masculine and feminine plural interiores)
Noun edit
interior m (plural interiores)
- interior
- (Venezuela, also used in the plural) male underwear, underpants
Antonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “interior”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014