interior

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English

Etymology

From Latin interior (“inner, interior”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɪə.ɹɪ.ə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɪ.ɹi.ɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: in‧ter‧i‧or

Adjective

interior (not comparable)

1. Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.

2. Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland.

Alternative forms

• interiour (obsolete)

Antonyms

• exterior

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

interior (plural interiors)

1. The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.

2. The inside regions of a country, distanced from the borders or coasts.

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

Antonyms

• exterior

Translations

Further reading

• interior (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• tire iron

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin interior.

Noun

interior m (plural interiores)

1. interior (the inside of an enclosed structure)

   Antonym: exterior

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin interiōrem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [in.tə.ɾiˈor]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [in.tə.ɾiˈo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [in.te.ɾiˈoɾ]

Adjective

interior m or f (masculine and feminine plural interiors)

1. interior, inner, internal

   Antonym: exterior

Noun

interior m (plural interiors)

1. interior, inside

   Antonym: exterior

Noun

interior m or f by sense (plural interiors)

1. (baseball) infielder

   Coordinate term: exterior

2. (field hockey or ice hockey) inside

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, 2024
• “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.
• “interior” in termcat, Centre de Terminologia, 2024.
• “interior” in termcat, Centre de Terminologia, 2024.

Galician

Etymology

From Latin interior.

Adjective

interior m or f (plural interiores)

1. inner, interior

Noun

interior m (plural interiores)

1. interior

Antonyms

• exterior

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

Adjective

interior (comparative-only, 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.

Descendants

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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin interiōrem.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: in‧te‧ri‧or

Adjective

interior m or f (plural interiores)

1. inner; interior (located in the inside)

   Antonym: exterior

Noun

interior m (plural interiores)

1. interior; inside

   Antonym: exterior

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

   Synonym: campo

   Antonym: cidade

Usage notes

Generally speaking, any part of a Brazilian state that is not in or near its capital or coast is the state's interior. Alternatively, 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.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French intérieur.

Noun

interior n (plural interiori)

1. interior

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin interior.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

interior m or f (masculine and feminine 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

Related terms

Further reading

• “interior”, 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