territorial

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌtɛɹ.ɪˈtɔː.ɹi.əl/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌtɛɹ.əˈtɔɹ.i.əl/

  • Audio (Canada):

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• Rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl

Adjective

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.

Derived terms

• 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

 

Related terms

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

Translations

of, relating to, or restricted to a specific geographic area, or territory

• Albanian: territorial (sq)
• Arabic: إِقْلِيمِيّ (ʔiqlīmiyy)
• Armenian: տարածքային (hy) (tarackʻayin)
• Azerbaijani: ərazi (az)
• Belarusian: тэрытарыя́льны (terytaryjálʹny)
• Bulgarian: териториа́лен (teritoriálen)
• Catalan: territorial (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 領土／领土 (zh) (lǐngtǔ)

• Czech: územní (cs), teritoriální (cs)
• Danish: territorial (da)
• Dutch: territoriaal (nl)
• Emilian: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: territoriaalne
• Finnish: alueellinen (fi), territoriaalinen (fi)
• French: territorial (fr)
• Friulian: teritoriâl
• Galician: territorial (gl)
• Georgian: ტერიტორიული (ṭeriṭoriuli)
• German: territorial (de), Gebiets- (de)
• Greek: εδαφικός (el) (edafikós)
• Hindi: अर्ज़ी (arzī), क्षेत्रीय (kṣetrīya)
• Indonesian: teritorial (id)
• Italian: territoriale (it)
• Japanese: 領土 (ja) (りょうど, ryōdo)
• Kazakh: аумақтық (aumaqtyq)
• Khmer: ទឹកដី (tɨk dəy)
• Korean: 영토(領土) (ko) (yeongto), 령토(領土) (ko) (ryeongto) (North Korea)
• Kyrgyz: аймактык (ky) (aymaktık)
• Lao: ອານາເຂດ (ʼā nā khēt)
• Latvian: teritoriāls
• Ligurian: teritoriâle
• Lithuanian: teritorinis
• Lombard: territorial (lmo)
• Macedonian: територија́лен (teritorijálen)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: territorial

  Nynorsk: territorial

• Persian: اَرضی (fa) (arzi), سَرزَمینی (sarzamini)
• Piedmontese: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: terytorialny (pl)
• Portuguese: territorial (pt)
• Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: teritorial (ro)
• Russian: территориа́льный (ru) (territoriálʹnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: територијалан

  Roman: teritorijalan

• Slovak: územný, teritoriálny
• Slovene: teritorialen (sl)
• Spanish: territorial (es)
• Swedish: territoriell (sv)
• Tagalog: lupainin
• Tajik: территориявӣ (territoriyavi)
• Thai: อาณาเขต (th) (aa-naa-kèet)
• Turkish: bölge (tr)
• Ukrainian: територіа́льний (terytoriálʹnyj)
• Urdu: اَرْضی (ur) (arzī)
• Vietnamese: lãnh thổ (vi)

Noun

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

Etymology

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

Adjective

territorial m or f (masculine and feminine plural territorials)

1. territorial

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French territorial.

Adjective

territorial

1. territorial

Inflection

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.

References

• “territorial” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio:

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Adjective

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.

Derived terms

• eaux territoriales
• mandat territorial
• mer territoriale
• territorialement
• territorialisme
• territorialité

 

Related terms

• terre
• terrestre

 

Noun

territorial m (plural territoriaux)

1. territorial

Further reading

• “territorial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tɛʁitoˈʁi̯aːl]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ter‧ri‧to‧ri‧al

Adjective

territorial (strong nominative masculine singular territorialer, not comparable)

1. territorial

Declension

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

Derived terms

• Territorialgewalt
• Territorialhoheit
• Territorialprinzip
• Territorialstaat

Related terms

• Territorium

Further reading

• “territorial” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “territorial” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “territorial” in Duden online
• “territorial” in OpenThesaurus.de

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French territorial, from Late Latin territorialis.

Adjective

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

1. territorial

References

• “territorial” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “territorial” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French territorial, from Late Latin territorialis.

Adjective

territorial (neuter territorialt, definite singular and plural territoriale)

1. territorial

References

• “territorial” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /te.ʁi.to.ɾiˈaw/ [te.hi.to.ɾɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /te.ʁi.toˈɾjaw/ [te.hi.toˈɾjaʊ̯]

• (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]

• (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

territorial m or f (plural territoriais, not comparable)

1. territorial

Related terms

• território

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /teritoˈɾjal/ [t̪e.ri.t̪oˈɾjal]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: te‧rri‧to‧rial

Adjective

territorial m or f (masculine and feminine plural territoriales)

1. territorial

Derived terms

• mar territorial
• territorialidad
• territorialismo
• territorializar
• territorialmente

 

Further reading

• “territorial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28