different between terrene vs territorial

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English terrene, from Anglo-Norman terriene, feminine of terrien, from Latin terr?nus, from terra (“earth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???i?n/, /t???i?n/
• Rhymes: -i?n

Adjective

terrene (comparative more terrene, superlative most terrene)

1. Pertaining to the earth; earthly, terrestrial, worldly, as opposed to heavenly, marine.

   • God set before him a mortal and immortal life, a nature celestial and terrene.

   • 1888, Henry James, The Patagonia.

     One had never thought of the sea as the great place of safety, but now it came over one that there is no place so safe from the land. When it does not give you trouble it takes it away—takes away letters and telegrams and newspapers and visits and duties and efforts, all the complications, all the superfluities and superstitions that we have stuffed into our terrene life.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     Arius, warring his life long upon the consubstantiality of the Son with the Father, and Valentine, spurning Christ’s terrene body, and the subtle African heresiarch Sabellius who held that the Father was Himself His own Son.

   • 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:

     For the earth was both celestial and terrene, the down here and the up there.

Derived terms

• subterrene
• superterrene

Related terms

Noun

terrene

1. (poetic) The Earth's surface; the earth; the ground.

Etymology 2

Noun

terrene (plural terrenes)

1. Dated form of tureen.
   • March 27, 1760, Horace Walpole, letter to George Montagu Esq.

     Execrable varnished pictures, chests, cabinets, commodes, tables, stands, boxes, riding on one another's backs, and loaded with terrenes, filligree, figures, and everything upon earth

Anagrams

• enterer, re-enter, re-entre, reenter, reentre, reënter, terreen

Italian

Adjective

terrene f pl

1. feminine plural of terreno

Latin

Adjective

terr?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of terr?nus

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