provincial
English
Etymology
From Old French provincial, from Latin provincialis (“province”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɹəˈvɪn(t)ʃəl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /pɹəˈvɪnt͡ʃəl/
Audio (US) (file)
Adjective
provincial (comparative more provincial, superlative most provincial)
- Of or pertaining to a province.
- a provincial government
- a provincial dialect
- Constituting a province.
- Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
- 1856 December, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson [from the Encyclopædia Britannica]”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, OCLC 30956848:
- […] fond of exhibiting provincial airs and graces.
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- Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude
- 2011, KD McCrite, In Front of God and Everybody
- That awful little Cedar Whatever is no thriving megalopolis, and you people are so provincial, it's appalling.
- 2011, KD McCrite, In Front of God and Everybody
- Narrow; illiberal.
- Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
- a provincial synod
- Limited in outlook; narrow.
Synonyms
- rural
Derived terms
- provincially
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Noun
provincial (plural provincials)
- A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
- (Roman Catholicism) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 700:
- The Franciscan provincial Diego de Landa set up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 700:
- (obsolete) A constitution issued by the head of an ecclesiastical province.
- c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, OCLC 8728872, lines 130–135, page 65:
- Or els is thys Goddis law,
Decrees or decretals,
Or holy sinodals,
Or els provincyals,
Thus within the wals
Of holy church to deale […]?
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- A country bumpkin.
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Catalan
Etymology
From Latin prōvinciālis. First attested in 1653.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /pɾo.vin.siˈal/
- (Central) IPA(key): /pɾu.bin.siˈal/
- Rhymes: -al
Adjective
provincial (masculine and feminine plural provincials)
- provincial
Derived terms
- provincialisme
Related terms
- província
References
- “provincial”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
Further reading
- “provincial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “provincial” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “provincial” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
From Latin provincialis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʁɔ.vɛ̃.sjal/
Audio (file)
Adjective
provincial (feminine provinciale, masculine plural provinciaux, feminine plural provinciales)
- provincial
Derived terms
- provincialement
- provincialisme
Noun
provincial m (plural provinciaux)
- people from the provinces/regions
Further reading
- “provincial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Occitan
Etymology
From Latin prōvinciālis. First attested in the 13th century.[1]
Adjective
provincial m (feminine singular provinciala, masculine plural provincials, feminine plural provincialas)
- provincial
Derived terms
- provincialisme
Related terms
- província
References
- Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2016, page 528.
Further reading
- Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, →ISBN, page 789.
Piedmontese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pruviŋˈt͡ʃal/
Adjective
provincial
- provincial
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin prōvinciālis.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /pɾo.vĩ.siˈaw/ [pɾo.vĩ.sɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /pɾo.vĩˈsjaw/ [pɾo.vĩˈsjaʊ̯]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɾu.vĩˈsjal/ [pɾu.vĩˈsjaɫ]
Adjective
provincial m or f (plural provinciais)
- provincial
Derived terms
- provincialismo
Related terms
- província
- provinciano
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin provincialis. By surface analysis, provincie + -al.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pro.vin.t͡ʃiˈal/
Noun
provincial m (plural provinciali)
- provincial
Declension
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) provincial | provincialul | (niște) provinciali | provincialii |
genitive/dative | (unui) provincial | provincialului | (unor) provinciali | provincialilor |
vocative | provincialule | provincialilor |
Related terms
- provincialism
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin prōvinciālis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /pɾobinˈθjal/ [pɾo.β̞ĩn̟ˈθjal]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /pɾobinˈsjal/ [pɾo.β̞ĩnˈsjal]
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: pro‧vin‧cial
Adjective
provincial (plural provinciales)
- provincial
Derived terms
- audiencia provincial
- provincialismo
- provincialista
- provincializar
Related terms
- provincia
Further reading
- “provincial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014