central
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin centrālis, from centrum (“centre”), from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron); by surface analysis, centre + -al.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]central (comparative more central, superlative most central)
- Being in the centre.
- 1814, William Wordsworth, “The Parsonage”, in The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, volume V, London: Longman, published 1827, page 340:
- Egyption Thebes; / Tyre by the margin of the sounding waves; / Palmyra, central in the Desert, fell; / And the Arts died by which they had been raised.
- 2013 July 27, “Putting down roots”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8846:
- The plantoid […] will have a central stem containing a reservoir of liquid plastic of a sort that can be frozen by ultraviolet light. Half a dozen cylindrical roots will branch off this stem, and the plastic will flow through these from the reservoir to the tip. As in a real root, the tip will be a specialised structure.
- 2024 May 4, John Naughton, “The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding”, in The Guardian[1]:
- The network had no central ownership or controller; and it did only one thing – transfer data packets from one edge of the network to their destination at another edge.
- Having or containing the centre of something.
- Being very important, or key to something.
- 2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport:
- Cleverley was a central figure as England took the lead inside three minutes. He saw his shot handled by Moldovan defender Simion Bulgaru and Lampard drilled home the penalty in trademark fashion.
- 2020 May 6, Jim Steer, “Full Business Case offers fresh insight into HS2's prospects”, in Rail, page 51, photo caption:
- (anatomy) Exerting its action towards the peripheral organs.
Derived terms
[edit]- acentral
- anterocentral
- bicentral
- caudocentral
- central adiposity
- Central African Federation
- Central Anatolia
- central angle
- central bank
- Central Bedfordshire
- Central Bridge
- central business district
- central canal
- central casting
- central chimpanzee
- Central City
- central city
- Central Coast
- Central Coaster
- central committee
- central determiner
- central dogma
- central door locking
- Central European
- central excise
- central fire
- Central Frontenac
- central government
- central heating
- Central Highlands
- Central Huron
- Central Huron
- Centralia
- centralisation
- centralise
- centralish
- centrality
- centralize
- central limit theorem
- central location test
- central locking
- centrally
- Central Manitoulin
- Central Min
- central moment
- centralmost
- central nervous system
- centralness
- Central Okanagan
- Central Okanagan
- Central Otago
- central pain syndrome
- Central Papua
- central pawn
- Central Plain
- central planning
- central processing unit
- Central Provinces
- central reservation
- central retinal artery
- central simple algebra
- central spindle
- central sulcus
- central tendency
- central vacuum
- costocentral
- craniocentral
- decentral
- dorsocentral
- epicentral
- excentral
- frontocentral
- hypercentral
- intercentral
- Mashonaland Central
- measure of central tendency
- mesiocentral
- metacentral
- mid-central
- midcentral
- monocentral
- multicentral
- neurocentral
- noncentral
- northcentral
- orthocentral
- paracentral
- parietocentral
- pericentral
- pluricentral
- polycentral
- postcentral
- posteriocentral
- posterocentral
- proximocentral
- quasicentral
- semicentral
- southcentral
- subcentral
- supracentral
- temporocentral
- tricentral
- uncentral
- unicentral
Related terms
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Noun
[edit]central (plural centrals)
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin centrālis.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]central m or f (masculine and feminine plural centrals)
- central (being in the centre)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]central f (plural centrals)
- nexus; headquarters (non-military); central office
- Synonym: seu (“seat or headquarters”)
- Antonym: sucursal (“branch office”)
- Hyponyms: central telefònica, central telegràfica
- (electricity) power plant
Further reading
[edit]- “central” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “central”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “central” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “central” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin centralis.
Noun
[edit]central c (singular definite centralen, plural indefinite centraler)
- headquarters, place whence organizations are administrated
Declension
[edit]common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | central | centralen | centraler | centralerne |
genitive | centrals | centralens | centralers | centralernes |
Adjective
[edit]central
- central, being in the centre
Inflection
[edit]Inflection of central | |||
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Positive | Comparative | Superlative | |
Indefinte common singular | central | — | —2 |
Indefinite neuter singular | centralt | — | —2 |
Plural | centrale | — | —2 |
Definite attributive1 | centrale | — | — |
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. 2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively. |
References
[edit]- “central” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin centrālis. By surface analysis, centre + -al.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]central (feminine centrale, masculine plural centraux, feminine plural centrales)
- central
- Antonym: périphérique
Derived terms
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Turkish: santral
Further reading
[edit]- “central”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin centrālis.
Adjective
[edit]central m or f (plural centrais)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “central”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
Occitan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin centrālis.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]central m (feminine singular centrala, masculine plural centrals, feminine plural centralas)
Related terms
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin centrālis.
Pronunciation
[edit]
Adjective
[edit]central m or f (plural centrais)
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]central f (plural centrais)
- centre
- headquarters
- (Portugal, soccer) back (player in a position behind most players on the team)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “central” in iDicionário Aulete.
- “central” in Dicionário inFormal.
- “central” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “central” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “central” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
- “central” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French central, Latin centrālis. By surface analysis, centru + -al.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]central m or n (feminine singular centrală, masculine plural centrali, feminine and neuter plural centrale)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | central | centrală | centrali | centrale | ||
definite | centralul | centrala | centralii | centralele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | central | centrale | centrali | centrale | ||
definite | centralului | centralei | centralelor | centralilor |
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin centrālis.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /θenˈtɾal/ [θẽn̪ˈt̪ɾal]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /senˈtɾal/ [sẽn̪ˈt̪ɾal]
Audio (Latin America): (file) - Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: cen‧tral
Adjective
[edit]central m or f (masculine and feminine plural centrales)
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]central f (plural centrales)
- headquarter
- center
- power station
- Synonym: centra eléctrica
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “central”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Latin centrālis, from centrum (“center point”) + -ālis.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Adjective
[edit]central
- central, centralized, situated at the centre (of a town)
- central, important
Declension
[edit]Inflection of central | |||
---|---|---|---|
Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
Common singular | central | centralare | centralast |
Neuter singular | centralt | centralare | centralast |
Plural | centrala | centralare | centralast |
Masculine plural3 | centrale | centralare | centralast |
Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
Masculine singular1 | centrale | centralare | centralaste |
All | centrala | centralare | centralaste |
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic |
Related terms
[edit]- busscentral
- centrala nervsystemet
- centralafrikan (“a Central African”)
- centralafrikansk
- Centralafrikanska republiken (“Central African Republic”)
- Centralamerika (“Central America”)
- centralamerikansk
- centralantenn
- centralasiatisk
- centralbank (“a central bank”)
- centralbibliotek
- centralbyråkrat
- centraldirigerad
- centraldirigering
- centraldispensär
- centralenhet
- Centraleuropa
- centraleuropeisk
- centralfigur
- centralförbund
- centralförening
- centralförvaltning
- centralgestalt
- centralisera
- centralisering
- centralism (“centralism”)
- centralistisk
- centralkassa
- centralkommitté
- centralkyrka
- centralkök
- centrallager
- centrallasarett
- centrallyrik
- centrallyrisk
- centrallås
- centralmakt
- centralmyndighet
- centralnämnd
- centralorgan
- centralorganisation
- centralort
- centralpalats
- centralprov
- centralpunkt
- centralradio
- centralredaktion
- centralregering
- centralsjukhus
- centralskola
- centralstation
- centralstimulantia
- centralstimulerande
- centralstyrd
- centralstyre
- centralstyrelse
- centralvärme
Etymology 2
[edit]Clipping of centralstation, or any other compound of the adjective.
Noun
[edit]central c
- a central, a centre, a central station, a junction, a connection point, an electrical switchboard
Declension
[edit]Declension of central | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | central | centralen | centraler | centralerna |
Genitive | centrals | centralens | centralers | centralernas |
Related terms
[edit]References
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *-trom
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