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citerior

Syllables: ci·te·ri·or/sɪˈtɪə.ɹɪ.ə/US/səˈtɪ.ɹi.ɚ/

citerior adjective: chiefly in place names: situated on the nearer side.

Adjective

citerior (not comparable)

  1. (literary) Chiefly in place names: situated on the nearer side.
    • 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.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...
    • It [Spain] was divided by the Romans into two provinces, Citeriour and Ulteriour, nearer and farther, that is, from Rome.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....
    Antonyms:
    ulterior

Examples of citerior in a sentence

  • [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.1942, The Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society, volume 28, Patna, Bihar, India: Bihar and Orissa Research Society, →ISSN...
  • 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.1978, Alan E. Astin, “The Consul in Spain”, in Cato the Censor, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, published 2000, →ISBN, page 33:
  • Both citerior and ulterior locations (and corresponding contact locations) are marked similarly.2000, Niko Besnier, “Morphology”, in Tuvaluan: A Polynesian Language of the Central Pacific (Descriptive Grammars), London; New York, N.Y....

Synonyms of citerior

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Antonyms

Forms of citerior

alternative form (obsolete)citeriour

Origin of citerior

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). The English word is cognate with French citérieur, Italian citeriore, Portuguese and Spanish citerior.

Words that rhyme with citerior

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Questions about citerior

What does citerior mean?
Citerior means chiefly in place names: situated on the nearer side.
How do you use citerior in a sentence?
[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.
What part of speech is citerior?
Citerior is an adjective.
How do you pronounce citerior?
Citerior is pronounced /sɪˈtɪə.ɹɪ.ə/ (UK).

Words near citerior in the dictionary

  1. citee
  2. citees
  3. Citeh
  4. citeless
  5. citer
  6. citerior
  7. citeriour
  8. citers
  9. cites
  10. citess
  11. citesses

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