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provincial

See also: Provincial

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English provincial, from Old French provincial, from Latin prōvinciālis (“of a province”), equivalent to province +‎ -ial.

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provincial (comparative more provincial, superlative most provincial)

  1. Of or pertaining to a province.
    a provincial government
    a provincial dialect
  2. Constituting a province.
  3. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
  4. 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.
  5. Narrow; illiberal.
  6. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
    a provincial synod
  7. Limited in outlook; narrow.

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provincial (plural provincials)

  1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
  3. (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, published 2010, page 700:
      The Franciscan provincial Diego de Landa set up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population.
  4. (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, page 65, lines 130–135:
      Or els is thys Goddis law,
      Decrees or decretals,
      Or holy sinodals,
      Or els provincyals,
      Thus within the wals
      Of holy church to deale  […]?
  5. A country bumpkin.

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin prōvinciālis. First attested in 1653.[1]

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provincial m or f (masculine and feminine plural provincials)

  1. provincial

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  1. ^ “provincial”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

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French

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin provinciālis. By surface analysis, province +‎ -ial. Compare provençal.

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provincial (feminine provinciale, masculine plural provinciaux, feminine plural provinciales)

  1. provincial

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provincial m (plural provinciaux, feminine provinciale)

  1. person from the provinces/regions

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Occitan

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Etymology

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From Latin prōvinciālis. First attested in the 13th century.[1]

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provincial m (feminine singular provinciala, masculine plural provincials, feminine plural provincialas)

  1. provincial

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  1. ^ Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 528.

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  • Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎[1], 2 edition, →ISBN, page 789.

Piedmontese

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provincial

  1. provincial

Portuguese

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Etymology

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From Latin prōvinciālis.

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /pɾo.vĩ.siˈaw/ [pɾo.vĩ.sɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /pɾo.vĩˈsjaw/ [pɾo.vĩˈsjaʊ̯]
 

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provincial m or f (plural provinciais)

  1. provincial

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin provincialis. By surface analysis, provincie +‎ -al.

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  • IPA(key): /pro.vin.t͡ʃiˈal/

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provincial m (plural provinciali)

  1. provincial

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative provincial provincialul provinciali provincialii
genitive-dative provincial provincialului provinciali provincialilor
vocative provincialule provincialilor
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Spanish

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Etymology

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From Latin prōvinciālis.

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  • IPA(key): (Spain) /pɾobinˈθjal/ [pɾo.β̞ĩn̟ˈθjal]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /pɾobinˈsjal/ [pɾo.β̞ĩnˈsjal]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: pro‧vin‧cial

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provincial m or f (masculine and feminine plural provinciales)

  1. provincial

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