# provincial
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English provincial, from Old French provincial, from Latin prōvinciālis (“of a province”), equivalent to province +‎ -ial.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /pɹəˈvɪn(t)ʃəl/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Adjective

provincial (comparative more provincial, superlative most provincial)
* Of or pertaining to a province.
    a provincial government
    a provincial dialect
* Constituting a province.
* Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province.
** 1856 December, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:[…] fond of exhibiting provincial airs and graces.
* Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude
** 2011, KD McCrite, In Front of God and Everybody:That awful little Cedar Whatever is no thriving megalopolis, and you people are so provincial, it's appalling.
* Narrow; illiberal.
* Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical.
    a provincial synod
* Limited in outlook; narrow.

#### Synonyms

* rural

#### Derived terms

* comprovincial
* ecoprovincial
* extraprovincial
* interprovincial
* intraprovincial
* multiprovincial
* nonprovincial
* provincialate
* provincial capital
* provincialist
* provinciality
* provincialization
* provincialize
* provincially
* provincial park
* subprovincial
* transprovincial
* unprovincial

#### Translations
### Noun

provincial (plural provincials)
* A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial.
* (Roman Catholicism) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order.
** 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 700:The Franciscan provincial Diego de Landa set up a local Inquisition which unleashed a campaign of interrogation and torture on the Indio population.
* (obsolete) A constitution issued by the head of an ecclesiastical province.
** c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 65, lines 130–135:Or els is thys Goddis law, Decrees or decretals, Or holy sinodals, Or els provincyals, Thus within the wals Of holy church to deale […]?
* A country bumpkin.

#### Translations
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prōvinciālis. First attested in 1653.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [pɾu.βin.siˈal]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [pɾo.vin.siˈal]
* Rhymes: -al

### Adjective

provincial m or f (masculine and feminine plural provincials)
* provincial

#### Derived terms

* provincialisme

#### Related terms

* província

### References

* ↑ “provincial”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

### Further reading

* “provincial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “provincial” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “provincial” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## French
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin provinciālis. By surface analysis, province +‎ -ial. Compare provençal.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pʁɔ.vɛ̃.sjal/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

provincial (feminine provinciale, masculine plural provinciaux, feminine plural provinciales)
* provincial

#### Derived terms

* provincialement
* provincialisme

### Noun

provincial m (plural provinciaux, feminine provinciale)
* person from the provinces/regions

### Further reading

* “provincial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Latin prōvinciālis. First attested in the 13th century.

### Adjective

provincial m (feminine singular provinciala, masculine plural provincials, feminine plural provincialas)
* provincial

#### Derived terms

* provincialisme

#### Related terms

* província

### References

* ↑ Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 528.

### Further reading

* Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎, 2 edition, →ISBN, page 789.

## Piedmontese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pruviŋˈt͡ʃal/

### Adjective

provincial
* provincial

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Latin prōvinciālis.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /pɾo.vĩ.siˈaw/ [pɾo.vĩ.sɪˈaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /pɾo.vĩˈsjaw/ [pɾo.vĩˈsjaʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /pɾu.vĩˈsjal/ [pɾu.vĩˈsjaɫ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /pɾu.vĩˈsjal/ [pɾu.vĩˈsjaɫ]
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /pɾu.bĩˈsjal/ [pɾu.βĩˈsjaɫ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /pɾu.vĩˈsja.li/

### Adjective

provincial m or f (plural provinciais)
* provincial

#### Derived terms

* provincialismo

#### Related terms

* província
* provinciano

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin provincialis. By surface analysis, provincie +‎ -al.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pro.vin.t͡ʃiˈal/

### Noun

provincial m (plural provinciali)
* provincial

#### Related terms

* provincialism

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin prōvinciālis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /pɾobinˈθjal/ [pɾo.β̞ĩn̟ˈθjal]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /pɾobinˈsjal/ [pɾo.β̞ĩnˈsjal]
* Rhymes: -al
* Syllabification: pro‧vin‧cial

### Adjective

provincial m or f (masculine and feminine plural provinciales)
* provincial

#### Derived terms

* audiencia provincial
* diputación provincial
* provincialismo
* provincialista
* provincializar

#### Related terms

* provincia

### Further reading

* “provincial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10