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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-ālis—

Words derived from “provincial”

  • provincially
  • interprovincial
  • provinciality
  • provincialize
  • subprovincial
  • provincialization
  • intraprovincial
  • extraprovincial
  • provincialist
  • unprovincial
  • deprovincialization
  • comprovincial
  • interprovincially
  • deprovincialize
  • nonprovincial
  • multiprovincial
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