territorium

Danish

Alternative forms

territorie

Etymology

From Latin territōrium.

Noun

territorium n (singular definite territoriet, plural indefinite territorier)

territory

Declension

More information neuter gender, singular ...

Declension of *territorium*
neuter gender	singular		plural
neuter gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	territorium	territoriet	territorier	territorierne
genitive	territoriums	territoriets	territoriers	territoriernes

Etymology

From Latin territōrium.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɛrɪˈtoːriʏm/
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Noun

territorium n (plural territoria or territoriums)

territory

Latin

Etymology

From terra (“land”) + -tor ("-er": forming agent nouns) + -ium ("-y, -ity": forming abstract nouns, particularly in reference to "domain" or "office").

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ter.riˈtoː.ri.um/, [t̪ɛrːɪˈt̪oːriʊ̃ˑ]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ter.riˈto.ri.um/, [t̪erːiˈt̪ɔːrium]

Noun

territōrium n (genitive territōriī or territōrī); second declension

territory, particularly the ritually established territory of a settlement bound by the pomerium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

More information singular, plural ...

	singular	plural
nominative	territōrium	territōria
genitive	territōriī territōrī¹	territōriōrum
dative	territōriō	territōriīs
accusative	territōrium	territōria
ablative	territōriō	territōriīs
vocative	territōrium	territōria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

territōriālis

Related terms

terra

Descendants

⇒ Vulgar Latin: *terratorium
- French: terroir
→ Albanian: territor
→ Belarusian: тэрыторыя (terytóryja)
→ Bulgarian: територия (teritorija)
→ Catalan: territori
→ Czech: teritorium
→ Danish: territorium
→ Dutch: territorium
→ English: territory
→ Esperanto: teritorio
→ Estonian: territoorium
→ Finnish: territorio
→ French: territoire
→ Galician: territorio
→ Georgian: ტერიტორია (ṭeriṭoria)
→ German: Territorium
→ Ido: teritorio
→ Indonesian: teritori
→ Interlingua: territorio
→ Italian: territorio
→ Northern Kurdish: terrîtorî
→ Latvian: teritorija
→ Lithuanian: teritorija
→ Norman: territouaithe (Jersey)
→ Norwegian: territorium
→ Occitan: territòri, terrador
→ Papiamentu: teritorio
→ Polish: terytorium
→ Portuguese: território
→ Romanian: teritoriu
→ Russian: территория (territorija)
→ Serbo-Croatian: територија (teritorija)
→ Slovak: teritórium
→ Slovene: teritorij
→ Spanish: territorio (see there for further descendants)
→ Swedish: territorium
→ Tatar: territory

References

“territorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“territorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"territorium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
territorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.