different between central vs centrum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin centr?lis, from centrum (“centre”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (kéntron).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?nt??l/

Adjective

central (comparative more central, superlative most central)

1. Being in the centre.
2. Having or containing the centre of something.
3. Being very important, or key to something.

   Synonyms: dominant, main, principal
4. (anatomy) Exerting its action towards the peripheral organs.

Derived terms

Related terms

• center

Translations

Noun

central (plural centrals)

1. (especially US) centre

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin centr?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /s?n?t?al/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /sen?t?al/

Adjective

central (masculine and feminine plural centrals)

1. central (being in the centre)

Derived terms

• centralment
• centralitat
• centralitzar

Related terms

• centre

Noun

central f (plural centrals)

1. nexus; headquarters (non-military); central office
2. (electricity) power plant

Synonyms

• seu (“seat or headquarters”)

Antonyms

• sucursal (“branch office”)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “central” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “central” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “central” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “central” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin centralis.

Noun

central c (singular definite centralen, plural indefinite centraler)

1. headquarters, place whence organizations are administrated

Declension

Adjective

central

1. central, being in the centre

Inflection

References

• “central” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin centr?lis. Synchronically analysable as centre +? -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??.t?al/

Adjective

central (feminine singular centrale, masculine plural centraux, feminine plural centrales)

1. central

Antonyms

• périphérique

Derived terms

• banque centrale
• chauffage central (“central heating”)
• rond central
• système nerveux central
• unité centrale
• vision centrale

Related terms

Further reading

• “central” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• raclent

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin centr?lis.

Adjective

central m or f (plural centrais)

1. central

Derived terms

• centralismo
• centralista
• centralizar

Related terms

• centro

Further reading

• “central” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Occitan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin centr?lis.

Adjective

central m (feminine singular centrala, masculine plural centrals, feminine plural centralas)

1. central

Related terms

• centre

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin centr?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /s?.?t?a?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /s?.?t?aw/, [s???????.?t?ä??]
• Hyphenation: cen?tral

Adjective

central m or f (plural centrais, comparable)

1. central

Noun

central f (plural centrais)

1. centre
2. headquarters
3. (Portugal, soccer) back (player in a position behind most players on the team)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French central, Latin centr?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t??en?tral]

Adjective

central m or n (feminine singular central?, masculine plural centrali, feminine and neuter plural centrale)

1. central, pivotal, nodal

Declension

Related terms

• centru

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin centr?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /?en?t?al/, [??n??t??al]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /sen?t?al/, [s?n??t??al]

Adjective

central (plural centrales)

1. central

Derived terms

• centralismo
• centralista
• centralizar
• centralmente
• precentral

Noun

central f (plural centrales)

1. headquarter
2. center
3. power station

   Synonym: centra eléctrica

Derived terms

Related terms

• centrar
• céntrico
• centro

Further reading

• “central” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin centr?lis, from centrum (“center point”) + -?lis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

central

1. central, centralized, situated at the centre (of a town)
2. central, important

Declension

Related terms

Etymology 2

Clipping of centralstation, or any other compound of the adjective.

Noun

central c

1. a central, a centre, a central station, a junction, a connection point, an electrical switchboard

Declension

Related terms

References

• central in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin centrum. Doublet of centre / center.

Noun

centrum (plural centra)

1. A center.
2. (anatomy)
   1. The central body of a vertebra; the solid piece to which the arches and some other parts are or may be attached.
   2. The basis or fundamental portion of one of the cranial segments, regarded as analogous to vertebrae.
3. (seismology) The focus or place of origin of an earthquake.

Derived terms

• intercentrum
• pleurocentrum

Czech

Etymology

From Latin centrum, from Ancient Greek ??????? (kéntron), from ?????? (kenté?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?s?ntrum]

Noun

centrum n

1. center (US); centre (UK) (of a city)

   Synonym: st?ed

   Antonyms: okraj, periferie

2. center (US); centre (UK) (place where activity occurs)

   Synonym: st?edisko

Declension

Derived terms

• zdravotní centrum
• nákupní centrum

Related terms

Further reading

• centrum in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• centrum in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin centrum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?n.tr?m/
• Hyphenation: cen?trum

Noun

centrum n (plural centra or centrums, diminutive centrumpje n)

1. center (US); centre (UK) (e.g. of activity)
2. (geometry) center (US), centre (UK)
3. city centre

   Synonyms: binnenstad, stadscentrum, stadshart, stadskern

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: sentra (from plural form)

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin centrum (“centre”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (kéntron, “sharp point”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?s?ntrum]
• Hyphenation: cent?rum
• Rhymes: -um

Noun

centrum (plural centrumok)

1. center (US); centre (UK) (the middle of)
2. center (US); centre (UK) (of a city)
3. center (US); centre (UK) (of an activity)
4. (geometry) center (US); centre (UK)
5. (politics) the Center (US); Centre (UK)

Declension

Related terms

• centrális

See also

• center

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (kéntron, “sharp point”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ken.trum/, [?k?n?t?????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?t??en.trum/, [?t???n?t??um]

Noun

centrum n (genitive centr?); second declension

1. center (US); centre (UK)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Derived terms

• centr?lis

Descendants

References

• centrum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• centrum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• centrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin centrum, from Ancient Greek ??????? (kéntron, “centre”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?s?n.trum/

Noun

centrum n

1. center (US); centre (UK) (of a city)
2. center (US); centre (UK) (the middle part of)
3. center (US); centre (UK) (of an activity)
4. (politics) the Center (US); Centre (UK)

Declension

Synonyms

• (middle): ?rodek

Further reading

• centrum in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin centrum.

Pronunciation

Noun

centrum c

1. center (US); centre (UK); the middle of something
2. center (US); centre (UK); place where a function or activity occurs
3. the central areas of a city or a suburb

Usage notes

• The various declensions are not tied to different meanings of the word, only a sign of the bewilderness of how best to fit this Latin word into Swedish.
• Swedish uses centrum for the shops at the centre of a suburb (Farsta) or small and medium-sized town (Uppsala), while the centre of a larger city (Stockholm) is often called city.

Declension

Derived terms

• i händelsernas centrum
• köpcentrum

Related terms

• center
• central
• centrera