# territorium
## Danish
### Alternative forms

* territorie

### Etymology

From Latin territōrium.

### Noun

territorium n (singular definite territoriet, plural indefinite territorier)
* territory

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “territorium” in Den Danske Ordbog
* “territorium” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Latin territōrium.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɛrɪˈtoːriʏm/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

territorium n (plural territoria or territoriums)
* territory

## Latin
### Etymology

From terra (“land”) + -tor ("-er": forming agent nouns) + -ium ("-y, -ity": forming abstract nouns, particularly in reference to "domain" or "office").

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ter.riˈtoː.ri.um/, [t̪ɛrːɪˈt̪oːriʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ter.riˈto.ri.um/, [t̪erːiˈt̪ɔːrium]

### Noun

territōrium n (genitive territōriī or territōrī); second declension
* territory, particularly the ritually established territory of a settlement bound by the pomerium

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | territōrium | territōria |
| Genitive | territōriī territōrī$^1$ | territōriōrum |
| Dative | territōriō | territōriīs |
| Accusative | territōrium | territōria |
| Ablative | territōriō | territōriīs |
| Vocative | territōrium | territōria |
$^1$Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

#### Derived terms

* territōriālis

#### Related terms

* terra

#### Descendants

* ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *terratorium
** French: terroir
* → Albanian: territor
* → Belarusian: тэрыторыя (terytóryja)
* → Bulgarian: територия (teritorija)
* → Catalan: territori
* → Czech: teritorium
* → Danish: territorium
* → Dutch: territorium
* → English: territory
* → Esperanto: teritorio
* → Estonian: territoorium
* → Finnish: territorio
* → French: territoire
* → Galician: territorio
* → Georgian: ტერიტორია (ṭeriṭoria)
* → German: Territorium
* → Ido: teritorio
* → Indonesian: teritori
* → Interlingua: territorio
* → Italian: territorio
* → Northern Kurdish: terrîtorî
* → Latvian: teritorija
* → Lithuanian: teritorija
* → Norman: territouaithe (Jersey)
* → Norwegian: territorium
* → Occitan: territòri, terrador
* → Papiamentu: teritorio
* → Polish: terytorium
* → Portuguese: território
* → Romanian: teritoriu
* → Russian: территория (territorija)
* → Serbo-Croatian: територија (teritorija)
* → Slovak: teritórium
* → Slovene: teritorij
* → Spanish: territorio (see there for further descendants)
* → Swedish: territorium
* → Tatar: territory

### References

* “territorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “territorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* territorium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* territorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Latin territōrium.

### Noun

territorium n (definite singular territoriet, indefinite plural territorier, definite plural territoria or territoriene)
* territory

#### Derived terms

* Nordvestterritoriene

### References

* “territorium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Latin territōrium.

### Noun

territorium n (definite singular territoriet, indefinite plural territorium, definite plural territoria)
* territory

#### Derived terms

* Nordvestterritoria

### References

* “territorium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Latin territōrium.

### Noun

territorium n
* territory

#### Declension
### References

* territorium in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* territorium in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* territorium in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)