interior
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin interior (“inner, interior”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪnˈtɪə.ɹɪ.ə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪnˈtɪ.ɹi.ɚ/
Audio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: in‧ter‧i‧or
Adjective
editinterior (not comparable)
- Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.
- the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball
- Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland.
- the interior parts of a region or country
Alternative forms
edit- interiour (obsolete)
Antonyms
editDerived terms
editTranslations
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Noun
editinterior (plural interiors)
- The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.
- The gardens are just divine, but the interior of the house are even more splendid.
- The inside regions of a country, distanced from the borders or coasts.
- Sir Richard Burton explored far into the African interior.
- (mathematics, topology) The set of all interior points of a set.
Antonyms
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Further reading
editinterior (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
editAsturian
editEtymology
editNoun
editinterior m (plural interiores)
Catalan
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin interiōrem.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): (Central) [in.tə.ɾiˈor]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [in.tə.ɾiˈo]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [in.te.ɾiˈoɾ]
Adjective
editinterior m or f (masculine and feminine plural interiors)
Noun
editinterior m (plural interiors)
Further reading
edit- “interior” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “interior”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “interior” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “interior” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician
editEtymology
editAdjective
editinterior m or f (plural interiores)
Noun
editinterior m (plural interiores)
Antonyms
editLatin
editEtymology
editFrom the earlier *interus (whence also intrā), from the Proto-Indo-European *h₁énteros (“inner, what is inside”). Cognates include the Sanskrit अन्तर (ántara, “interior”) and the Ancient Greek ἔντερον (énteron, “intestine, bowel”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /inˈte.ri.or/, [ɪn̪ˈt̪ɛriɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /inˈte.ri.or/, [in̪ˈt̪ɛːrior]
Adjective
editinterior (neuter interius); third declension
Usage notes
editAlthough this adjective is the comparative form of inter, there is no positive form. The word inter is an adverb and preposition, not an adjective.
Declension
editThird-declension comparative adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
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Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | interior | interius | interiōrēs | interiōra | |
Genitive | interiōris | interiōrum | |||
Dative | interiōrī | interiōribus | |||
Accusative | interiōrem | interius | interiōrēs | interiōra | |
Ablative | interiōre | interiōribus | |||
Vocative | interior | interius | interiōrēs | interiōra |
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “interior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “interior”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- interior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the interior of Asia: interior Asia; interiora Asiae
- profound scientific education: litterae interiores et reconditae, artes reconditae
- the interior of Asia: interior Asia; interiora Asiae
Portuguese
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin interiōrem.
Pronunciation
edit
- Hyphenation: in‧te‧ri‧or
Adjective
editinterior m or f (plural interiores)
- inner; interior (located in the inside)
- Antonym: exterior
- Não comemos os olhos nem os órgãos interiores.
- We don’t eat the eyes nor the inner organs.
Noun
editinterior m (plural interiores)
- interior; inside
- Antonym: exterior
- Tirei uma bola do interior da caixa.
- I took out a ball from interior the box.
- country; countryside; interior (regions outside major cities)
Usage notes
editGenerally speaking, any part of a Brazilian state that is not in or near its capital or coast is the state's interior. Alternatively, people from smaller cities tend to consider only smaller towns interior, those from small villages tend to consider only places without any collective settlement interior, and so on.
Romanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French intérieur.
Noun
editinterior n (plural interiori)
Declension
editsingular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) interior | interiorul | (niște) interiori | interiorile |
genitive/dative | (unui) interior | interiorului | (unor) interiori | interiorilor |
vocative | interiorule | interiorilor |
Spanish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editinterior m or f (masculine and feminine plural interiores)
Noun
editinterior m (plural interiores)
- interior
- (Venezuela, also used in the plural) male underwear, underpants
Antonyms
editDerived terms
editRelated terms
editFurther reading
edit- “interior”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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