territorial

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Late Latin territorialis, from Latin territorium; equivalent to territory +‎ -al.

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Adjective

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territorial (comparative more territorial, superlative most territorial)

  1. Of, relating to, or restricted to a specific geographic area, or territory.
  2. 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, →DOI, page 2:
      Studies have narrowed the territorial focus to signage used in specific cities, townships, suburbs, precincts, etc.
  3. (often capitalized) Organized for home defence - such as the Territorial Army.
  4. (biology) Displaying territoriality.

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Noun

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territorial (plural territorials)

  1. 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

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Late Latin territoriālis, from Latin territorium; equivalent to territori +‎ -al.

Adjective

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territorial m or f (masculine and feminine plural territorials)

  1. territorial

Danish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French territorial.

Adjective

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territorial

  1. territorial

Inflection

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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.

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Late Latin territoriālis, from Latin territorium. By surface analysis, territoire +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /tɛ.ʁi.tɔ.ʁjal/ ~ /te.ʁi.tɔ.ʁjal/
  • Audio:(file)

Adjective

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territorial (feminine territoriale, masculine plural territoriaux, feminine plural territoriales)

  1. 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.

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Noun

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territorial m (plural territoriaux)

  1. territorial

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German

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [tɛʁitoˈʁi̯aːl]
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  • Hyphenation: ter‧ri‧to‧ri‧al

Adjective

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territorial (strong nominative masculine singular territorialer, not comparable)

  1. territorial

Declension

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From French territorial, from Late Latin territorialis.

Adjective

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territorial (masculine and feminine territorial, neuter territorialt, definite singular and plural territoriale)

  1. territorial

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From French territorial, from Late Latin territorialis.

Adjective

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territorial (neuter territorialt, definite singular and plural territoriale)

  1. territorial

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Late Latin territōriālis, from Latin territorium. By surface analysis, território +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /te.ʁi.to.ɾiˈaw/ [te.hi.to.ɾɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /te.ʁi.toˈɾjaw/ [te.hi.toˈɾjaʊ̯]
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /te.ʁi.to.ɾiˈaw/ [te.χi.to.ɾɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /te.ʁi.toˈɾjaw/ [te.χi.toˈɾjaʊ̯]
 
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /tɨ.ʁi.tuˈɾjal/ [tɨ.ʁi.tuˈɾjaɫ]
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /tɨ.ʁi.tuˈɾja.li/

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: ter‧ri‧to‧ri‧al

Adjective

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territorial m or f (plural territoriais, not comparable)

  1. territorial
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Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Late Latin territoriālis, from Latin territorium; equivalent to territorio +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /teritoˈɾjal/ [t̪e.ri.t̪oˈɾjal]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: te‧rri‧to‧rial

Adjective

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territorial m or f (masculine and feminine plural territoriales)

  1. territorial

Derived terms

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