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territorial

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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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English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ters- (0 c, 37 e)

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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.

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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
indefinite 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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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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Positive forms of territorial (uncomparable)
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter
predicative er ist territorial sie ist territorial es ist territorial sie sind territorial
strong declension
(without article) 		nominative territorialer territoriale territoriales territoriale
genitive territorialen territorialer territorialen territorialer
dative territorialem territorialer territorialem territorialen
accusative territorialen territoriale territoriales territoriale
weak declension
(with definite article) 		nominative der territoriale die territoriale das territoriale die territorialen
genitive des territorialen der territorialen des territorialen der territorialen
dative dem territorialen der territorialen dem territorialen den territorialen
accusative den territorialen die territoriale das territoriale die territorialen
mixed declension
(with indefinite article) 		nominative ein territorialer eine territoriale ein territoriales (keine) territorialen
genitive eines territorialen einer territorialen eines territorialen (keiner) territorialen
dative einem territorialen einer territorialen einem territorialen (keinen) territorialen
accusative einen territorialen eine territoriale ein territoriales (keine) territorialen

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From French territorial, from Late Latin territorialis.

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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.

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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.

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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

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