interior

See also: Interior and interiør

English

Etymology

From Latin interior (“inner, interior”).

Pronunciation

  • (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

interior (not comparable)

  1. Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.
    the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball
  2. Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland.
    the interior parts of a region or country

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Noun

interior (plural interiors)

  1. 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.
  2. The inside regions of a country, continent, etc., distanced from the borders or coasts.
    Hypernyms: land; country; area; region; place; location
    Near-synonyms: backcountry, upcountry, hinterland
    Sir Richard Burton explored far into the African interior.
    • 1989 May, Priit J. Vesilind, “The Baltic: Arena of Power”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 623:
      Nearly 44 percent of all cargo involves the Soviet Union; 10 percent is transit goods for the landlocked European interior—Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria.
  3. (mathematics, topology) The set of all interior points of a set.

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Asturian

Etymology

From Latin interior.

Noun

interior m (plural interiores)

  1. interior (the inside of an enclosed structure)
    Antonym: exterior

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin interiōrem.

Pronunciation

Adjective

interior m or f (masculine and feminine plural interiors)

  1. interior, inner, internal
    Antonym: exterior

Noun

interior m (plural interiors)

  1. interior, inside
    Antonym: exterior

Noun

interior m or f by sense (plural interiors)

  1. (baseball) infielder
    Coordinate term: exterior
  2. (field hockey or ice hockey) inside

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Galician

Etymology

    Derived from Latin interior.

    Adjective

    interior m or f (plural interiores)

    1. inner, interior

    Noun

    interior m (plural interiores)

    1. interior

    Antonyms

    Latin

    Etymology

    From earlier *interus (whence also intrā and interulus), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁énteros (“inner, what is inside”). Cognates include Sanskrit अन्तर (ántara, “interior”) and Ancient Greek ἔντερον (énteron, “intestine, bowel”).

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    interior (comparative, neuter interius, no positive form, superlative intimus or intumus, adverb interius); third declension

    1. comparative degree of inter
      1. inner, interior
      2. nearer
      3. more secret, unknown
        • 4th century–c. 330 CE, Arnobius, Adverus Nationes 7.19.1–2:
          nam dis feminis feminas, mares maribus hostias immolare abstrusa et interior ratio est
          for in sacrificing female victims to female gods and male victims to male gods, the reason is hidden and unknown

    Usage notes

    • Although interior is the comparative form of inter morphologically, there is no attested positive form, as inter is only used as a preposition and adverb, not as an adjective.

    Declension

    Third-declension comparative adjective.

    singular plural
    masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
    nominative interior interius interiōrēs interiōra
    genitive interiōris interiōrum
    dative interiōrī interiōribus
    accusative interiōrem interius interiōrēs
    interiōrīs     		interiōra
    ablative interiōre
    interiōrī     		interiōribus
    vocative interior interius interiōrēs interiōra

    Descendants

    • → Asturian: interior
    • → Catalan: interior
    • → English: interior, interiour
    • → French: intérieur (see there for further descendants)
    • → Galician: interior
    • → Italian: interiore
    • → Occitan: interior
    • → Portuguese: interior
    • → Romanian: interior
    • → Spanish: interior

    References

    • “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
    • Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938), “interior”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 710

    Portuguese

    Etymology

      Learned borrowing from Latin interiōrem.

      Pronunciation

       
      • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ĩ.te.ɾiˈoʁ/ [ĩ.te.ɾiˈoh], (faster) /ĩ.teˈɾjoʁ/ [ĩ.teˈɾjoh]
        • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ĩ.te.ɾiˈoɾ/, (faster) /ĩ.teˈɾjoɾ/
        • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ĩ.te.ɾiˈoʁ/ [ĩ.te.ɾiˈoχ], (faster) /ĩ.teˈɾjoʁ/ [ĩ.teˈɾjoχ]
        • (Caipira) IPA(key): /ĩ.te.ɾiˈoɻ/, (faster) /ĩ.teˈɾjoɻ/
       
      • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ĩ.tɨˈɾjoɾ/, (with elision) /ĩ.tɾiˈoɾ/, (with elision, faster) /ĩˈtɾjoɾ/, /ẽ.tɨˈɾjoɾ/, (with elision) /ẽ.tɾiˈoɾ/, (with elision, faster) /ẽˈtɾjoɾ/
        • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ĩ.tɨˈɾjo.ɾi/, (with elision) /ĩ.tɾiˈo.ɾi/, (with elision, faster) /ĩˈtɾjo.ɾi/, /ẽ.tɨˈɾjo.ɾi/, (with elision) /ẽ.tɾiˈo.ɾi/, (with elision, faster) /ẽˈtɾjo.ɾi/

      Adjective

      interior m or f (plural interiores)

      1. 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

      interior m (plural interiores)

      1. interior; inside
        Antonym: exterior
        Tirei uma bola do interior da caixa.
        I took out a ball from the interior of the box.
      2. country; countryside; interior (regions outside major cities)
        Synonym: campo
        Antonym: cidade
        Esses fazendeiros moraram sempre no interior.
        Those farmers have always lived in the country.

      Usage notes

      Generally 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.

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      Romanian

      Etymology

      Etymology tree
      Latin interiorlbor.
      French intérieurbor.
      Romanian interior

        Borrowed from French intérieur.

        Noun

        interior n (plural interiori)

        1. interior

        Declension

        singular plural
        indefinite definite indefinite definite
        nominative-accusative interior interiorul interiori interiorile
        genitive-dative interior interiorului interiori interiorilor
        vocative interiorule interiorilor

        Spanish

        Etymology

          Derived from Latin interior.

          Pronunciation

          • IPA(key): /inteˈɾjoɾ/ [ĩn̪.t̪eˈɾjoɾ]
          • Rhymes: -oɾ
          • Syllabification: in‧te‧rior

          Adjective

          interior m or f (masculine and feminine plural interiores)

          1. inner, interior

          Noun

          interior m (plural interiores)

          1. interior
          2. (Venezuela, also used in the plural) male underwear, underpants

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