multilateral

See also: multilatéral

English

Etymology

From multi- +‎ lateral.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ætəɹəl

Adjective

multilateral (not comparable)

1. Having many sides or points of view.
2. (politics) Involving three or more parties or nations.

   a multilateral negotiation

Translations

having many sides or points of view

• Azerbaijani: çoxtərəfli
• Belarusian: многабо́чны (mnohabóčny), многабако́вы (mnohabakóvy), шматбако́вы (šmatbakóvy), многастаро́нні (mnohastarónni)
• Bulgarian: многостра́нен (bg) (mnogostránen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 多邊 / 多边 (zh) (duōbiān)

• Czech: mnohostranný
• Dutch: multilateraal (nl)
• Finnish: monitahoinen
• French: multilatéral (fr)
• Georgian: მრავალმხრივი (mravalmxrivi)
• German: multilateral (de), vielseitig (de)
• Greek: πολύπλευρος (el) m (polýplevros)
• Icelandic: marghliða m
• Kazakh: көпжақты (köpjaqty)
• Macedonian: повеќестран (poveḱestran)
• Manx: yl-heuagh
• Polish: wielostronny (pl), wieloboczny
• Portuguese: multilateral
• Russian: многосторо́нний (ru) (mnogostorónnij)
• Ukrainian: багатобі́чний (uk) (bahatobíčnyj), багатосторо́нній (uk) (bahatostorónnij), многобі́чний (mnohobíčnyj)

involving three or more parties

• Azerbaijani: çoxtərəfli
• Czech: multilaterální (cs) m, vícestranný m
• Dutch: multilateraal (nl)
• Finnish: monenkeskinen
• Georgian: მრავალმხრივი (mravalmxrivi)
• German: multilateral (de)
• Greek: πολυμερής (el) m (polymerís)
• Icelandic: marghliða m
• Macedonian: повеќестран (poveḱestran), мултилатерален (multilateralen)
• Portuguese: multilateral
• Ukrainian: багатосторо́нній (uk) (bahatostorónnij)

Noun

multilateral (plural multilaterals)

1. (politics) A group with representatives from three or more parties or nations.

Portuguese

Etymology

From multi- +‎ lateral.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /muw.t͡ʃi.la.teˈɾaw/ [muʊ̯.t͡ʃi.la.teˈɾaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mul.ti.lɐ.tɨˈɾal/ [muɫ.ti.lɐ.tɨˈɾaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mul.ti.lɐ.tɨˈɾal/ [muɫ.ti.lɐ.tɨˈɾaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /mul.ti.lɐ.tɨˈɾa.li/ [muɫ.ti.lɐ.tɨˈɾa.li]

• Hyphenation: mul‧ti‧la‧te‧ral

Adjective

multilateral m or f (plural multilaterais)

1. multilateral (having many sides or points of view)
2. multilateral (involving more than one party)

Further reading

• “multilateral”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French multilatéral. By surface analysis, multi- +‎ lateral.

Adjective

multilateral m or n (feminine singular multilaterală, masculine plural multilaterali, feminine and neuter plural multilaterale)

1. multilateral

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	multilateral		multilaterală		multilaterali	multilaterale
	definite	multilateralul		multilaterala		multilateralii	multilateralele
genitive- dative	indefinite	multilateral		multilaterale		multilaterali	multilaterale
	definite	multilateralului		multilateralei		multilateralilor	multilateralelor

Spanish

Etymology

multi- + lateral

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /multilateˈɾal/ [mul̪.t̪i.la.t̪eˈɾal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: mul‧ti‧la‧te‧ral

Adjective

multilateral m or f (masculine and feminine plural multilaterales)

1. multilateral
   • 2015 July 31, “La ‘Colección Mexicana’ en Chile: una historia de solidaridad”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Por un lado, se propuso ejecutar una política de mayor activismo y estrecho acercamiento hacia mecanismos multilaterales como el Movimiento de los países No Alineados, el Grupo de los 77 y, en general, el Tercer Mundo.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• “multilateral”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10