different between territorial vs terrain

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin territorialis, from Latin territorium; equivalent to territory +? -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?.???t??.?i.?l/

Adjective

territorial (comparative more territorial, superlative most territorial)

1. Of, relating to, or restricted to a specific geographic area, or territory.
2. Of or relating to geography or territory.
   • 1918, Woodrow Wilson, “Fourteen Points,” pages 6–7:

     Rumania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated?; occupied territories restored?; Serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea?; and the relations of the several Balkan states to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and nationality?; and international guarantees of the political and economic independence and territorial integrity of the several Balkan states should be entered into.
3. (often capitalized) Organized for home defence - such as the Territorial Army.
4. (biology) Displaying territoriality.

Derived terms

• extraterritorial
• territorial waters

Related terms

Translations

Noun

territorial (plural territorials)

1. A non-professional member of a territorial army.
   • 2013, Ira A. Hunt Jr., Losing Vietnam: How America Abandoned Southeast Asia, University Press of Kentucky (?ISBN), page 166

     The territorials initiated about as many ground contacts (7,175) as the communists initiated against them (7,391) and more than those initiated by the army. As expected, the enemy attacked the territorials almost three times as often as it did the army.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin territorialis, from Latin territorium; equivalent to territori +? -al.

Adjective

territorial (masculine and feminine plural territorials)

1. territorial

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French territorial.

Adjective

territorial

1. territorial

Inflection

References

• “territorial” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin territorialis, from Latin territorium; equivalent to territoire +? -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?.?i.t?.?jal/

Adjective

territorial (feminine singular territoriale, masculine plural territoriaux, feminine plural territoriales)

1. territorial

Derived terms

• eaux territoriales

Noun

territorial m (plural territoriaux)

1. territorial

Further reading

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

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t??ito??i?a?l]
• Hyphenation: ter?ri?to?ri?al

Adjective

territorial (not comparable)

1. territorial

Declension

Derived terms

• Territorialgewalt
• Territorialhoheit
• Territorialprinzip
• Territorialstaat

Further reading

• “territorial” in Duden online

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French territorial, from Late Latin territorialis.

Adjective

territorial (masculine and feminine territorial, neuter territorialt, definite singular and plural territoriale)

1. territorial

References

• “territorial” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “territorial” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French territorial, from Late Latin territorialis.

Adjective

territorial (masculine and feminine territorial, neuter territorialt, definite singular and plural territoriale)

1. territorial

References

• “territorial” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin territorialis, from Latin territorium; equivalent to território +? -al.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /t?.?i.tu.??ja?/
• Hyphenation: ter?ri?to?ri?al

Adjective

territorial m or f (plural territoriais, not comparable)

1. territorial

Related terms

• território

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin territorialis, from Latin territorium; equivalent to territorio +? -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /terito??jal/, [t?e.ri.t?o??jal]
• Hyphenation: ter?ri?to?rial

Adjective

territorial (plural territoriales)

1. territorial

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French terrain, from Latin terrenum (“land, ground”), neuter of terrenus (“consisting of earth”), from terra (“earth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?.?re?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

Noun

terrain (countable and uncountable, plural terrains)

1. (geology) A single, distinctive rock formation; an area having a preponderance of a particular rock or group of rocks.
2. An area of land or the particular features of it.

Synonyms

• ground

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• terrain in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• rantier, retrain, trainer

French

Etymology

From Old French terrain, terrein, from Vulgar Latin *terranum, from Latin terr?num.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?.???/

Noun

terrain m (plural terrains)

1. ground, landscape
2. field (as in soccer field)

3. lot, plot, parcel

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Czech: terén
• Norwegian:

  ? Norwegian Bokmål: terreng

  ? Norwegian Nynorsk: terreng

• ? Swedish: terräng

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• rentrai, ternira, trainer, traîner

Romansch

Alternative forms

• terren (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan)
• taragn (Sutsilvan)
• teragn (Surmiran)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *terranum, from Latin terrenum.

Noun

terrain m (plural terrains)

1. (Puter, Vallader) land, soil
2. (Puter) country, land

   Synonym: (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) pajais