territorialis

Forms

territōriālis (neuter territōriāle); third-declension two-termination adjective^[1]

Etymology

It is formed from Latin territōrium (“territory”) + -ālis.^[1][2][3]

Earliest recorded meaning

It is found in the Roman land surveyors (the Gromatici), of termini “boundary stones” belonging to a territory.^[3][2][4]

Semantic evolution

In antiquity the dictionaries record it only from the land surveyors.^[3][2][5] Ecclesiastical Latin uses it for “territorial”, with the adverb territorialiter.^[6] English borrowed it in the 1620s as territorial, “of or pertaining to a land or territory”.^[7]

Timeline

• 1620s – English borrows it as territorial.^[7]

Meanings

Adjective

1. Of or belonging to a territory, territorial.^[3][2][8][6]

Related words

• terra

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
3. ^ a b c d Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
4. ^ Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
5. ^ Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
6. ^ a b Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson
7. ^ a b Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com
8. ^ Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.