different between interior vs central

English

Alternative forms

• interiour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin interior (“inner, interior”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?t??i?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?t???i??/
• Rhymes: -???i?(?)

Adjective

interior (not comparable)

1. Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.

2. Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland.

Antonyms

• exterior

Derived terms

• interior decoration
• interior design
• interior designer

Translations

Noun

interior (plural interiors)

1. The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.

2. The inside regions of a country, distanced from the borders or coasts.

3. (mathematics, topology) The set of all interior points of a set.

Antonyms

• exterior

Translations

Anagrams

• tire iron

Asturian

Noun

interior m (plural interiores)

1. interior (the inside of an enclosed structure)

Catalan

Adjective

interior (feminine interiora, masculine plural interiors, feminine plural interiores)

1. interior, inner, internal

Noun

interior m (plural interiors)

1. interior, inside

Galician

Etymology

From Latin interior.

Adjective

interior m or f (plural interiores)

1. inner, interior

Noun

interior m (plural interiores)

1. interior

Antonyms

• exterior

Latin

Etymology

From the earlier *interus (whence also intr?), from the Proto-Indo-European *h?énteros (“inner, what is inside”). Cognates include the Sanskrit ????? (ántara, “interior”) and the Ancient Greek ??????? (énteron, “intestine, bowel”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /in?te.ri.or/, [?n??t???i?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in?te.ri.or/, [in??t????i?r]

Adjective

interior (neuter interius, positive inter); third declension

1. inner, interior
2. nearer

Usage notes

Although this adjective is the comparative form of inter, there is no positive form. The word inter is an adverb and preposition, not an adjective.

Declension

Third-declension comparative adjective.

Descendants

References

• interior in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• interior in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• interior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin interior.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?.t?.?i.?o?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?.?te.?i.?o?/, /??.te.??jo?/
• Hyphenation: in?te?ri?or

Adjective

interior (plural interiores, comparable)

1. inner; interior (located in the inside)

Antonyms

• (inner): exterior

Noun

interior m (plural interiores)

1. interior; inside

2. country; countryside; interior (regions outside major cities)

   Synonym: campo

Usage notes

The sense of countryside is very subjective. People from the Brazilian state capitals tend to consider the rest of the state interior, people from smaller cities tend to consider only smaller towns interior, those from small villages tend to consider only places without any collective settlement interior, and so on.

Antonyms

• (inside): exterior
• (countryside): cidade

Romanian

Etymology

From French intérieur

Noun

interior n (plural interiori)

1. interior

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin interior.

Adjective

interior (plural interiores)

1. inner, interior

Noun

interior m (plural interiores)

1. interior
2. (Venezuela, also used in the plural) male underwear, underpants

Antonyms

• exterior

Derived terms

Related terms

• interioridad
• interiorizar
• interno

Further reading

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

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)