territorial

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, 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.

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.

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

Etymology

Borrowed from French territorial.

Adjective

territorial

1. territorial

References

• “territorial” in Den Danske Ordbog

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.

Noun

territorial m (plural territoriaux)

1. territorial

Further reading

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

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

Further reading

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

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).

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.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

territorial m or f (plural territoriais, not comparable)

1. territorial

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

Further reading

• “territorial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10