interior

interior

See also: Interior and interiør

English

Alternative forms

• interiour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin interior (“inner, interior”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɪɹiɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɪəɹiːə/

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• Rhymes: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)

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

Antonyms

• exterior

Derived terms

• interior decoration
• interior design
• interior designer

Translations

having to do with the inner part of something

Armenian: ներքին (hy) (nerkʿin) Belarusian: уну́траны (be) (unútrany), ну́траны (nútrany) Bulgarian: въ́трешен (bg) (vǎ́trešen) Catalan: interior (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 內部／内部 (zh) (nèibù) Czech: vnitřní (cs) Esperanto: ena (eo) Finnish: sisä- (fi) (in compounds), sisäinen (fi); sisustus (fi) (having to do with interior design and decoration) French: intérieur (fr) German: inner (de) Gothic: 𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌿𐌼𐌰 (innuma) Hungarian: belső (hu) Italian: interiore (it), interno (it) Japanese: 内部 (ja) (naibu) Latin: penitus Macedonian: внатрешен (vnatrešen) Maori: o roto Polish: wewnętrzny (pl) Portuguese: interior (pt) Romanian: intern (ro), interior (ro) Russian: вну́тренний (ru) (vnútrennij) Sanskrit: अन्तर (sa) (antara) Slovak: vnútorný (sk) Slovene: notranji Spanish: interior (es) Turkish: iç (tr), içteki Ukrainian: вну́трішній (vnútrišnij) Walloon: divintrin (wa) m

having to do with the inland parts of a country

Armenian: ներքին (hy) (nerkʿin) Catalan: interior (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 內陸／内陆 (zh) (nèilù) Finnish: sisä- (fi), sisämaan (fi) (genitive of the noun) Georgian: საშინაო (sašinao), შიდა (šida) Hungarian: bel- (hu) Maori: uta Portuguese: interior (pt) m Romanian: intern (ro) Russian: вну́тренний (ru) (vnútrennij) Spanish: interior (es)

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French: (please verify) intérieur (fr) m Interlingua: (please verify) interior

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, distanced from the borders or coasts.

   Sir Richard Burton explored far into the African interior.

3. (mathematics, topology) The set of all interior points of a set.

Antonyms

• exterior

Translations

the inside of an enclosed structure

Asturian: interior m Breton: diabarzh (br) m Bulgarian: вътрешност (bg) f (vǎtrešnost) Catalan: interior (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 內部／内部 (zh) (nèibù) Dutch: interieur (nl) n Finnish: sisätila, sisus (fi), sisäpuoli (fi) French: intérieur (fr) m Galician: interior m German: Interieur (de) n, Inneres (de) n, Innenraum (de) m Hungarian: belső (hu) Japanese: 内装 (ja) (ないそう, naisō), 内部 (ja) (ないぶ, naibu), インテリア (ja) (interia) Norwegian: Bokmål: interiør n Nynorsk: interiør n Old Turkic: 𐰃𐰲‎ (ič) Ottoman Turkish: ایچ‎ (iç) Persian: درون‎ (fa) (darun), داخل‎ (fa) (dâxel) Polish: wnętrze (pl) n Portuguese: interior (pt) m Quechua: ukhu (qu) Russian: интерье́р (ru) m (intɛrʹjér), вну́тренность (ru) f (vnútrennostʹ), вну́тренняя часть f (vnútrennjaja častʹ) Sanskrit: अन्तर (sa) n (antara) Spanish: interior (es) m Swedish: interiör (sv), insida (sv), innandöme (sv), det inre Tetum: laran Turkish: iç (tr) Walloon: ådvins (wa) m Yakut: ис (is)

the inside regions of a country

Finnish: sisämaa (fi) Hungarian: belterület (hu) Maori: manowhenua Persian: داخل‎ (fa) (dâxel) Portuguese: interior (pt) m Russian: вну́тренние райо́ны страны́ m pl (vnútrennije rajóny straný)

the set of all interior points

German: Inneres (de) n, offener Kern m Icelandic: innri kjarni m Hebrew: פנים‎ (he) m (pním)

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Anagrams

• tire iron

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Asturian

Etymology

From Latin interior.

Noun

interior m (plural interiores)

1. interior (the inside of an enclosed structure)

   Antonym: exterior

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin interior.

Adjective

interior (masculine and feminine plural interiors)

1. interior, inner, internal

   Antonym: exterior

Noun

interior m (plural interiors)

1. interior, inside

   Antonym: exterior

Further reading

• “interior” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “interior”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “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.

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Galician

Etymology

From Latin interior.

Adjective

interior m or f (plural interiores)

1. inner, interior

Noun

interior m (plural interiores)

1. interior

Antonyms

• exterior

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Latin

Etymology

From 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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /inˈte.ri.or/, [ɪn̪ˈt̪ɛriɔr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /inˈte.ri.or/, [in̪ˈt̪ɛːrior]

Adjective

interior (neuter interius); third declension

1. comparative degree of inter
   1. inner, interior
   2. nearer

Usage notes

Although 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

Third-declension comparative adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
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

• → 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the interior of Asia: interior Asia; interiora Asiae
    
  • profound scientific education: litterae interiores et reconditae, artes reconditae
    

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin interiōrem.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.te.ɾiˈoʁ/ [ĩ.te.ɾɪˈoh], (faster pronunciation) /ĩ.teˈɾjoʁ/ [ĩ.teˈɾjoh]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.te.ɾiˈoʁ/ [ĩ.te.ɾɪˈoh], (faster pronunciation) /ĩ.teˈɾjoʁ/ [ĩ.teˈɾjoh]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ĩ.te.ɾiˈoɾ/ [ĩ.te.ɾɪˈoɾ], (faster pronunciation) /ĩ.teˈɾjoɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ĩ.te.ɾiˈoʁ/ [ĩ.te.ɾɪˈoχ], (faster pronunciation) /ĩ.teˈɾjoʁ/ [ĩ.teˈɾjoχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.te.ɾiˈoɻ/ [ĩ.te.ɾɪˈoɻ], (faster pronunciation) /ĩ.teˈɾjoɻ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.tɨˈɾjoɾ/

• Hyphenation: in‧te‧ri‧or

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 interior the box.

2. country; countryside; interior (regions outside major cities)

   Antonym: cidade

   Esses fazendeiros sempre moraram no interior.

   These farmers have always lived in the country.

   Synonym: campo

Usage notes

The sense of countryside is very subjective. People from the Brazilian state capitals tend to consider the rest of the state interior, 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

From French intérieur.

Noun

interior n (plural interiori)

1. interior

Declension

Declension of interior

	singular		plural
	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

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin interior.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

interior (plural interiores)

1. inner, interior

Noun

interior m (plural interiores)

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

Antonyms

• exterior

Derived terms

• camiseta interior
• interior de la República
• interiormente
• producto bruto interno
• producto interior bruto
• ropa interior

 

Related terms

• interioridad
• interiorizar
• interno

Further reading

• “interior”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014