different between civic vs parochial

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin c?vicus (“pertaining to a city or citizens”). Doublet of civil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?v?k/
• Rhymes: -?v?k

Adjective

civic (comparative more civic, superlative most civic)

1. Of, relating to, or belonging to a city, a citizen, or citizenship; municipal or civil.

2. Of or relating to the citizen, or of good citizenship and its rights and duties.

Derived terms

• civic centre
• civics
• civic-minded

Related terms

• civil

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French civique, from Latin civicus.

Adjective

civic m or n (feminine singular civic?, masculine plural civici, feminine and neuter plural civice)

1. civic

Declension

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman parochial and its source Late Latin parochialis, an alteration of paroecialis (“of a church province”), from paroecia, from Hellenistic Greek ???????? (paroikía, “stay in a foreign land”), later “community, diocese”, from Ancient Greek ???????? (pároikos, “neighbouring, neighbour”), from ????- (para-) + ????? (oîkos, “house”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p?????k??l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p???o?ki.?l/

Adjective

parochial (comparative more parochial, superlative most parochial)

1. Pertaining to a parish.
2. Characterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary in scope or outlook.

   The use of simple, primary colors in the painting gave it a parochial feel.

   Some people in the United States have been accused of taking a parochial view, of not being interested in international matters.

   • 1918, 1st of February, "Why I Joined The Army", an article in London's Daily Express by Daniel Desmond Sheehan

     But for men of principle and honour and straightforward thought there could be no middle course and no paltering with petty issues of party or parochial advantage.

   • 1969, T.C. Smout: A History of the Scottish People 1560-1830, p 341:

     Its atmosphere might have been provincial, but it was never merely parochial.

Derived terms

• parochial school
• parochial vicar
• parochialism
• parochially

Translations

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin parochialis. Compare the inherited term paroissial.

Adjective

parochial m (oblique and nominative feminine singular parochiale)

1. parochial

Descendants

• ? English: parochial