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local
English
Etymology
From Middle English local, from Late Latin loc?lis (“belonging to a place”), possibly also via Old French local; ultimately from Latin locus (“a place”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?l??kl?/
- (General American) enPR: l?k??l, IPA(key): /?lo?kl?/
- Rhymes: -??k?l
Adjective
local (comparative more local, superlative most local)
- From or in a nearby location.
- Holonyms: statal, national, federal, unional, supranational, global
- (computing, of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.
- Antonym: global
- (mathematics, not comparable, of a condition or state) Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.
- (medicine) Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
- Synonym: topical
- Descended from an indigenous population.
Translations
Noun
local (plural locals)
- A person who lives near a given place.
- A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
- I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.
- (rail transport, chiefly US) A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
- The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local.
- Synonym: stopper
- Antonyms: fast, express
- (Britain) One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
- I got barred from my local, so I've started going all the way into town for a drink.
- (programming) A locally scoped identifier.
- Functional programming languages usually don't allow changing the immediate value of locals once they've been initialized, unless they're explicitly marked as being mutable.
- 2012, Cesar Otero, ?Rob Larsen, Professional JQuery (page 25)
- Globals are visible anywhere in your application, whereas locals are visible only in the function in which they're declared.
- (US, slang, journalism) An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
- (colloquial, medicine) Clipping of local anesthetic.
- (finance) An independent trader who acts for themselves rather than on behalf of investors.
- 2009, R. Stafford Johnson, Bond Evaluation, Selection, and Management (page 316)
- On most futures exchanges, there are two major types of futures traders/members: commission brokers and locals.
- 2009, R. Stafford Johnson, Bond Evaluation, Selection, and Management (page 316)
Translations
Adverb
local (comparative more local, superlative most local)
- In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.
- It's never been more important to buy local.
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- local in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- local in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- local at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- colla
Asturian
Adjective
local (epicene, plural locales)
- Alternative form of llocal
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin loc?lis, from Latin locus, attested from 1803.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /lo?kal/
- (Central) IPA(key): /lu?kal/
Adjective
local (masculine and feminine plural locals)
- local
Derived terms
- localitzar
- localment
Related terms
- lloc
- localitat
Noun
local m (plural locals)
- property, premises; business, storefront
References
Further reading
- “local” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “local” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “local” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin loc?lis, from Latin locus
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?.kal/
Adjective
local (feminine singular locale, masculine plural locaux, feminine plural locales)
- local
Antonyms
- global
Derived terms
- anesthésie locale
- classe locale
- localité
- localisation
Related terms
- lieu
- location
Noun
local m (plural locaux)
- room
Descendants
- ? Danish: lokale
Further reading
- “local” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- colla
Ladin
Pronunciation
Adjective
local m (feminine singular locala, masculine plural locai, feminine plural locales)
- local
Piedmontese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lu?kal/
Adjective
local
- local
Noun
local m
- room
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin loc?lis, from Latin locus. Cognate with the inherited lugar.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /lu.?ka?/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /lo.?kaw/
- Hyphenation: lo?cal
Adjective
local m or f (plural locais, comparable)
- local
Noun
local m (plural locais)
- premises, rooms
- site
- place, location
Synonyms
- (place, site): lugar, sítio
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French local, Late Latin localis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lo?kal/
Adjective
local m or n (feminine singular local?, masculine plural locali, feminine and neuter plural locale)
- local
Declension
Related terms
- localitate
- loc
- loca?ie
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin loc?lis, from Latin locus. Compare the inherited doublet lugar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lo?kal/, [lo?kal]
- Hyphenation: lo?cal
Adjective
local (plural locales)
- local
Derived terms
- Grupo Local
- Policía Local
Noun
local m (plural locales)
- premises, rooms
- (Mexico) store or other retail unit in a shopping center
Derived terms
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numen
English
Etymology
From Latin n?men.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?nju?.m?n/
- (US) IPA(key): /?nu?.m?n/
Noun
numen (plural numina)
- A divinity, especially a local or presiding god.
- 1671, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe, Chapter 4:
- The Egyptians were doubtless the most singular of all the Pagans, and the most oddly discrepant from the rest in their manner of worship; yet nevertheless, that these also agreed with the rest in those fundamentals of worshipping one supreme and universal Numen […]
- 1671, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe, Chapter 4:
- An influence or phenomenon at once mystical and transcendant.
See also
- numinous
- numinal
Latin
Alternative forms
- noumen
Etymology
- Could be simply an action noun of *nu?, for *nuimen, from *nu? + -men, thus meaning "a nodding with the head", "a nod", "command", "will" (as n?tus), with the particular meaning of "the divine will", "the will or power of the gods", "divine sway".
- Others suggest the Ancient Greek word ????????? (nooúmenon) ("an influence perceptible by mind but not by senses"), from ???? (noé?), was borrowed into Early Latin as the word noumen, whose spelling changed to numen in Classical Latin.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?nu?.men/, [?nu?m?n]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?nu.men/, [?nu?m?n]
Noun
n?men n (genitive n?minis); third declension
- a nod of the head
- divine sway or will
- divine power or right
- divinity
- (by extension) fairy
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Descendants
- ? English: numen, numinous
- ? Italian: nume
- ? Portuguese: nume, númen
- ? Spanish: numen
References
- numen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- numen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- numen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?numen/
Verb
numen
- past participle of niman
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin numen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?numen/, [?nu.m?n]
Noun
numen m (plural númenes)
- numen
- muse (source of inspiration)
- Synonyms: inspiración, musa
Further reading
- “numen” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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