territorial
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Late Latin territorialis, from Latin territorium; equivalent to territory + -al.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌtɛɹ.ɪˈtɔː.ɹi.əl/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌtɛɹ.əˈtɔɹ.i.əl/
Audio (CA) (file)
Adjective edit
territorial (comparative more territorial, superlative most territorial)
- Of, relating to, or restricted to a specific geographic area, or territory.
- Of or relating to geography or territory.
- 1918, Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points[1], pages 6–7:
- Rumania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated ; occupied territories restored ; Serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea ; and the relations of the several Balkan states to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and nationality ; and international guarantees of the political and economic independence and territorial integrity of the several Balkan states should be entered into.
- 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, , page 2:
- Studies have narrowed the territorial focus to signage used in specific cities, townships, suburbs, precincts, etc.
- (often capitalized) Organized for home defence - such as the Territorial Army.
- (biology) Displaying territoriality.
Derived terms edit
- antiterritorial
- aterritorial
- biterritorial
- deterritorial
- ethnoterritorial
- exterritorial
- extraterritorial
- infraterritorial
- interterritorial
- intraterritorial
- nonterritorial
- panterritorial
- preterritorial
- subterritorial
- territorial integrity
- territorialise
- territorialism
- territorialist
- territorialistic
- territorialization
- territorialize
- territorial justice
- territorially
- territorial matrix
- territorial pissing
- territorial sea
- territorial water
- territorial waters
- triterritorial
- uniterritorial
- unterritorial
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Translations edit
of, relating to, or restricted to a specific geographic area, or territory
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Noun edit
territorial (plural territorials)
- A non-professional member of a territorial army.
- 2013, Ira A. Hunt Jr., Losing Vietnam: How America Abandoned Southeast Asia, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 166:
- The territorials initiated about as many ground contacts (7,175) as the communists initiated against them (7,391) and more than those initiated by the army. As expected, the enemy attacked the territorials almost three times as often as it did the army.
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Late Latin territoriālis, from Latin territorium; equivalent to territori + -al.
Adjective edit
territorial m or f (masculine and feminine plural territorials)
Danish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French territorial.
Adjective edit
territorial
Inflection edit
| Inflection of territorial | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Comparative | Superlative | |
| Indefinte common singular | territorial | — | —2 |
| Indefinite neuter singular | territorialt | — | —2 |
| Plural | territoriale | — | —2 |
| Definite attributive1 | territoriale | — | — |
| 1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. 2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively. | |||
References edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Late Latin territoriālis, from Latin territorium. By surface analysis, territoire + -al.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
territorial (feminine territoriale, masculine plural territoriaux, feminine plural territoriales)
- territorial
- Le Méliphage festonné est un oiseau territorial. ― The Western spinebill is a territorial bird.
- 1987 (transl. 1992), Panayiotis Jerasimof Vatikiotis, translated by Odette Guitard, L'Islam et l'État [Islam and the State]:
- En tant que concept politique, l’État-nation se caractérise par une autorité à base territoriale, et non par des conceptions universalistes, extra-territoriales.
- As a political concept, the nation-state is characterized by a territorially based authority, rather than universalist, extra-territorial conceptions.
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Noun edit
territorial m (plural territoriaux)
Further reading edit
- “territorial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
territorial (strong nominative masculine singular territorialer, not comparable)
Declension edit
Positive forms of territorial (uncomparable)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “territorial” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “territorial” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “territorial” in Duden online
- “territorial” in OpenThesaurus.de
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From French territorial, from Late Latin territorialis.
Adjective edit
territorial (masculine and feminine territorial, neuter territorialt, definite singular and plural territoriale)
References edit
- “territorial” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “territorial” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From French territorial, from Late Latin territorialis.
Adjective edit
territorial (neuter territorialt, definite singular and plural territoriale)
References edit
- “territorial” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Late Latin territōriālis, from Latin territorium. By surface analysis, território + -al.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
territorial m or f (plural territoriais, not comparable)
Related terms edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Late Latin territoriālis, from Latin territorium; equivalent to territorio + -al.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /teritoˈɾjal/ [t̪e.ri.t̪oˈɾjal]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: te‧rri‧to‧rial
Adjective edit
territorial m or f (masculine and feminine plural territoriales)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “territorial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014