provincial English · revision 8037

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1377|origins=la provincia}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /pɹəˈvɪn(t)ʃəl/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is Middle English, [[bor|fro|provincial|t=belonging to a province of friars]],^(Etymonline)^(NODE 1998) from Latin [[m|la|provincialis|alt=prōvinciālis|t=of a province]], from prōvincia (see [[province]]).^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024)^(NODE 1998)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Of an ecclesiastical province, an archbishop's jurisdiction or a district of friars: 1377 in the OED, the late 14th century in Etymonline.^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The noun, the ecclesiastical head of a province, is also late 14th century,^(Etymonline) and a native of a province from the mid-15th century.^(Etymonline) Of a civil province, such as a Roman one, it is from 1594.^(OED 1989) Of the small towns and countryside as opposed to the capital is from the 1630s (1638), an idiom borrowed from French;^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) suggesting narrow or unsophisticated society is by 1755,^(Etymonline) a tinge Latin provincialis seems not to have had.^(Etymonline) In British use of the American colonies it is from the 1680s (1688).^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) A country person is a noun sense of 1711.^(Etymonline) In New Zealand a provincial team represents one of the old provinces.^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1377 – of an ecclesiastical province.^(OED 1989)

+ * mid-15th century – an inhabitant.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1638 – of the provinces.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1688 – of the American colonies.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1755 – narrow, unsophisticated.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of or relating to a [[province]].^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # Of the regions outside the capital city.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # Unsophisticated or narrow in outlook.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A person from the provinces.^(AHD)

+ # A person with narrow or unsophisticated ideas.^(AHD)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[provincialism]]

+ * [[provincially]]

+ * [[interprovincial]]

+ * [[nonprovincial]]

+ * [[provincialist]]

+ * [[provinciality]]

+ * [[provincialize]]

+ * [[unprovincial]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[province]]

+ * [[parochial]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}