citerior
English
Etymology
PIE word |
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*ḱe |
Borrowed from Latin citerior (“(particularly in province names) nearer”), comparative of citer (“on this side; near”) (from cis (“on or to this or the near side of; short of; before”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe (“here”)) + -ior (suffix forming comparatives).[1] The English word is cognate with French citérieur, Italian citeriore, Portuguese citerior, Spanish citerior.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: ci‧te‧ri‧or
Adjective
citerior (not comparable)
- (literary) Chiefly in place names: situated on the nearer side.
- Synonyms: (archaic) hither, proximate; see also Thesaurus:near
- Antonym: ulterior
- 1749, Thomas Nugent, “General Description of Italy”, in The Grand Tour. Containing an Exact Description of Most of the Cities, Towns, and Remarkable Places of Europe. […], volume III, London: Printed for S. Birt, […]; D. Browne, […]; A[ndrew] Millar, […]; and G. Hawkins, […], →OCLC, section II (Description of the Several Provinces of Italy), page 37:
- The Abruzzo is alſo ſubdivided into the Abruzzo Citerior, the Abruzzo Ulterior, and the county of Moliſa. […] Finally, Calabria is ſubdivided into the Baſilicata, Calabria Citerior, and Calabria Ulterior.
- 1827, William C[hanning] Woodbridge, Emma Willard, “Hispania or Spain”, in Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern; on the Principles of Comparison and Classification, 2nd edition, Hartford, Conn.: Published by Oliver D. Cooke & Co. J. & J. Harper, printers, →OCLC, page 23:
- It [Spain] was divided by the Romans into two provinces, Citeriour and Ulteriour, nearer and farther, that is, from Rome.
- 1942, The Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society, volume 28, Patna, Bihar, India: Bihar and Orissa Research Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 350:
- [D]ifferent provinces fell to different Apostles, Parthia fell to Thomas; to Matthew fell Ethiopia; and the Citerior India adherent to it is said to have fallen to Bartholomew.
- 1978, Alan E. Astin, “The Consul in Spain”, in Cato the Censor, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, published 2000, →ISBN, page 33:
- One of the new consuls was to take command in [Hispania] Citerior with a full consular army of two legions supported by 15,000 allied troops, 800 cavalry, and twenty-five warships.
- 2000, Niko Besnier, “Morphology”, in Tuvaluan: A Polynesian Language of the Central Pacific (Descriptive Grammars), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 347:
- Both citerior and ulterior locations (and corresponding contact locations) are marked similarly. Complex prepositions with mua 'front' […] and tua 'back' […] can denote citerior and ulterior locations respectively, while tafa 'side' […] can denote either citerior or ulterior locations.
Alternative forms
- citeriour (obsolete)
Translations
situated on the nearer side
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References
- ^ “citerior, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2014; “citerior”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Latin
Adjective
citerior (neuter citerius, positive citer); third declension
Declension
Third-declension comparative adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
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Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | citerior | citerius | citeriōrēs | citeriōra | |
Genitive | citeriōris | citeriōrum | |||
Dative | citeriōrī | citeriōribus | |||
Accusative | citeriōrem | citerius | citeriōrēs | citeriōra | |
Ablative | citeriōre | citeriōribus | |||
Vocative | citerior | citerius | citeriōrēs | citeriōra |
Antonyms
Related terms
Descendants
- English: citerior
- French: citérieur, citérieure
- Portuguese: citerior
- Spanish: citerior
References
- “citerior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “citerior”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- citerior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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