different between provincial vs provincialize

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

provincial +? -ize

Verb

provincialize (third-person singular simple present provincializes, present participle provincializing, simple past and past participle provincialized)

1. (transitive) To render provincial; to reduce or allot to provinces.