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Where does “extraterritorial” come from?

Extraterritorial derives from English territorial, Latin extra meaning beyond, Latin -alis forming adjectives, and Latin terra meaning earth or land, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ters- meaning to dry or land.

extraterritorial (English): Of a section of territory: not subject to the...

Definitions

  1. Of a section of territory: not subject to the...

Ancestry of “extraterritorial”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishterritorialOf, relating to, or restricted to a specific...
2Late Latinterritorialisterritorial; of or pertaining to a territory
3Latinterritōrium—
4Latin-toriumnominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative...
5Latin-tōrius—
6Latin-tor-er
7Proto-Italic-tōr—
8Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
9Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—

Words derived from “extraterritorial”

  • extraterritoriality
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