different between provincial vs caza

English

Etymology

From Old French provincial, from Latin provincialis (“province”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p???v?n(t)??l/, /p???v?n(t)??l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p???v?n(t)??l/, /p???v?n(t)??l/

Adjective

provincial (comparative more provincial, superlative most provincial)

1. Of or pertaining to a province.

2. Constituting a province.
3. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
   • 1856, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Samuel Johnson

     […] fond of exhibiting provincial airs and graces.

4. Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude
   • 2011, KD McCrite, In Front of God and Everybody

     That awful little Cedar Whatever is no thriving megalopolis, and you people are so provincial, it's appalling.

5. Narrow; illiberal.
6. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.

7. Limited in outlook; narrow.

Synonyms

• rural

Derived terms

• provincially

Translations

Noun

provincial (plural provincials)

1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
2. (Roman Catholicism) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 700:

     The Franciscan provincial Diego de Landa set up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population.

3. A country bumpkin.

Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

provincial (masculine and feminine plural provincials)

1. provincial

French

Etymology

From Latin provincialis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.v??.sjal/

Adjective

provincial (feminine singular provinciale, masculine plural provinciaux, feminine plural provinciales)

1. provincial

Derived terms

• provincialement
• provincialisme

Noun

provincial m (plural provinciaux)

1. people from the provinces/regions

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Adjective

provincial (plural provinciais, comparable)

1. provincial

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin provincialis

Noun

provincial m (plural provinciali)

1. provincial

Declension

Related terms

• provincialism
• provincie

Spanish

Adjective

provincial (plural provinciales)

1. provincial

Derived terms

• audiencia provincial

English

Etymology

From Turkish kaza, from Arabic ??????? (qa???).

Noun

caza (plural cazas)

1. A Turkish provincial subdivision.

References

Asturian

Verb

caza

1. inflection of cazar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Galician

Noun

caza f (plural cazas)

1. hunting
2. hunt

Related terms

• cazar

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Noun

caza f (plural cazas)

1. Obsolete spelling of casa

Verb

caza

1. Obsolete spelling of casa

Romanian

Etymology

From French caser.

Verb

a caza (third-person singular present cazeaz?, past participle cazat) 1st conj.

1. to house, to shelter

Conjugation

Spanish

Etymology

Deverbal form of cazar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /?ka?a/, [?ka.?a]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?kasa/, [?ka.sa]
• Rhymes: -a?a, -asa
• Hyphenation: ca?za
• Homophone: casa (seseo dialects)

Noun

caza f (plural cazas)

1. (countable or uncountable) hunting, hunt (act of finding and killing a wild animal; art of hunting)
2. persecution, hunting (act of pursuing in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict)
3. (uncountable) game (wild animals hunted for food; meat of these animals)
4. (uncountable) prey (animal hunted by another animal)
5. hunting ground (area used for hunting)
6. hunting party (group of people gathered to hunt together)

Noun

caza m (plural cazas)

1. fighter plane (military aircraft primarily designed to attack enemy aircraft)

Derived terms

• avión de caza
• dar caza

Related terms

• cazador
• cazar

Verb

caza

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of cazar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of cazar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of cazar.

Further reading

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