Where does “provincial” come from?

Provincial comes from Old French provincial, from Latin provincialis, from Latin provincia, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European prōw-.

provincial (English): Of or pertaining to a province; Constituting a...

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to a province; Constituting a...

Ancestry of “provincial”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchprovincial—
2Latinprovincialisprovincial
3Latin-ālis—
4Proto-Italic-ālisforms relational adjectives
Every word from Proto-Italic -ālis →Every word from Latin -ālis →Every word from Latin provincialis →