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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin interior (“inner, interior”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
interior (not comparable)
- Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.
- the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball
- Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland.
- the interior parts of a region or country
Antonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
having to do with the inner part of something
having to do with the inland parts of a country
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Noun[edit]
interior (plural interiors)
- The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.
- The inside regions of a country, distanced from the borders or coasts.
- Sir Richard Burton explored far into the African interior.
- (mathematics, topology) The set of all interior points of a set.
Antonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
the inside of an enclosed structure
the inside regions of a country
the set of all interior points
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Anagrams[edit]
Asturian[edit]
Noun[edit]
interior m (plural interiores)
- interior (the inside of an enclosed structure)
Catalan[edit]
Adjective[edit]
interior (feminine interiora, masculine plural interiors, feminine plural interiores)
- interior, inner, internal
Noun[edit]
interior m (plural interiors)
- interior, inside
Galician[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin interior.
Adjective[edit]
interior m or f (plural interiores)
- inner, interior
Noun[edit]
interior m (plural interiores)
- interior
Antonyms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
Adjective[edit]
interior (neuter interius, positive inter); third declension
- inner, interior
- nearer
Usage notes[edit]
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[edit]
Third-declension comparative adjective.
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- 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
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin interior.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
interior (plural interiores, comparable)
- inner; interior (located in the inside)
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Não comemos os olhos nem os órgãos interiores.
- We don’t eat the eyes nor the inner organs.
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Antonyms[edit]
Noun[edit]
interior m (plural interiores)
- interior; inside
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Tirei uma bola do interior da caixa.
- I took out a ball from interior the box.
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- country; countryside; interior (regions outside major cities)
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Esses fazendeiros sempre moraram no interior.
- These farmers have always lived in the country.
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Usage notes[edit]
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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Antonyms[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin interior.
Adjective[edit]
interior (plural interiores)
- inner, interior
Noun[edit]
interior m (plural interiores)
- interior
- (Venezuela, also used in the plural) male underwear, underpants
Antonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
“interior” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.