citerior

English
WOTD – 29 June 2019

Etymology
PIE word
*ḱe

Borrowed from Latin citerior (“(particularly in province names) nearer”), comparative of citer (“on this side; near”) (from cis (“on or to this or the near side of; short of; before”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe (“here”)) + -ior (suffix forming comparatives).[1] The English word is cognate with French citérieur, Italian citeriore, Portuguese citerior, Spanish citerior.

Pronunciation

Adjective

citerior (not comparable)

  1. (literary) Chiefly in place names: situated on the nearer side.
    Synonym: hither (archaic)
    Antonym: ulterior
    • 1749, Thomas Nugent, “General Description of Italy”, in The Grand Tour. Containing an Exact Description of Most of the Cities, Towns, and Remarkable Places of Europe. […], volume III, London: Printed for S. Birt, […]; D. Browne, […]; A[ndrew] Millar, […]; and G. Hawkins, […], OCLC 828485832, section II (Description of the Several Provinces of Italy), page 37:
      The Abruzzo is alſo ſubdivided into the Abruzzo Citerior, the Abruzzo Ulterior, and the county of Moliſa. […] Finally, Calabria is ſubdivided into the Baſilicata, Calabria Citerior, and Calabria Ulterior.
    • 1827, William C[hanning] Woodbridge; Emma Willard, “Hispania or Spain”, in Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern; on the Principles of Comparison and Classification, 2nd edition, Hartford, Conn.: Published by Oliver D. Cooke & Co. J. & J. Harper, printers, OCLC 41192048, page 23:
      It [Spain] was divided by the Romans into two provinces, Citeriour and Ulteriour, nearer and farther, that is, from Rome.
    • 1942, The Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society, volume 28, Patna, Bihar, India: Bihar and Orissa Research Society, ISSN 0304-2219, OCLC 265411686, page 350:
      [D]ifferent provinces fell to different Apostles, Parthia fell to Thomas; to Matthew fell Ethiopia; and the Citerior India adherent to it is said to have fallen to Bartholomew.
    • 1978, Alan E. Astin, “The Consul in Spain”, in Cato the Censor, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, published 2000, →ISBN, page 33:
      One of the new consuls was to take command in [Hispania] Citerior with a full consular army of two legions supported by 15,000 allied troops, 800 cavalry, and twenty-five warships.
    • 2000, Niko Besnier, “Morphology”, in Tuvaluan: A Polynesian Language of the Central Pacific (Descriptive Grammars), London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 347:
      Both citerior and ulterior locations (and corresponding contact locations) are marked similarly. Complex prepositions with mua 'front' […] and tua 'back' […] can denote citerior and ulterior locations respectively, while tafa 'side' […] can denote either citerior or ulterior locations.

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References
  1. “citerior, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2014; “citerior” (US) / “citerior” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.

Latin

Adjective

citerior (neuter citerius); third declension

  1. nearer
  2. sooner

Inflection

Third declension, comparative variant

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative citerior citerius citeriōrēs citeriōra
Genitive citeriōris citeriōris citeriōrum citeriōrum
Dative citeriōrī citeriōrī citeriōribus citeriōribus
Accusative citeriōrem citerius citeriōrēs citeriōra
Ablative citeriōre citeriōre citeriōribus citeriōribus
Vocative citerior citerius citeriōrēs citeriōra

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Descendants

References
  • citerior in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • citerior in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • citerior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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