# citerior
## English
### Alternative forms

* citeriour (obsolete)

### Etymology

* PIE word
* *ḱe
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.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /sɪˈtɪə.ɹɪ.ə/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /səˈtɪ.ɹi.ɚ/
* Rhymes: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
* Hyphenation: ci‧te‧ri‧or

### Adjective

citerior (not comparable)
* (literary) Chiefly in place names: situated on the nearer side.
    Synonyms: (archaic) hither, proximate; see also Thesaurus:near
    Antonym: 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 for S. Birt, […]; D. Browne, […]; A[ndrew] Millar, […]; and G. Hawkins, […], →OCLC, section II (Description of the Several Provinces of Italy), page 37: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.
** 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.: Published by Oliver D. Cooke & Co. J. & J. Harper, printers, →OCLC, page 23:It [Spain] was divided by the Romans into two provinces, Citeriour and Ulteriour, nearer and farther, that is, from Rome.
** 1942, The Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society, volume 28, Patna, Bihar, India: Bihar and Orissa Research Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 350:[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.
** 1978, Alan E. Astin, “The Consul in Spain”, in Cato the Censor, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, published 2000, →ISBN, page 33: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.
** 2000, Niko Besnier, “Morphology”, in Tuvaluan: A Polynesian Language of the Central Pacific (Descriptive Grammars), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 347:Both citerior and ulterior locations (and corresponding contact locations) are marked similarly. Complex prepositions with mua 'front' […] and tua 'back' […] can denote citerior and ulterior locations respectively, while tafa 'side' […] can denote either citerior or ulterior locations.

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ “citerior, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2014; “citerior”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

## Latin
### Adjective

citerior (comparative, neuter citerius); third declension
* comparative degree of citer

#### Declension

Third-declension comparative adjective.

#### Antonyms

* ulterior

#### Related terms

* Britannia citerior
* Fortuna citerior
* Frisia citerior
* Gallia citerior
* Hispania citerior
* Vasconia citerior

#### Descendants

* Catalan: citerior
* English: citerior
* French: citérieur
* Galician: citerior
* Italian: citeriore
* Portuguese: citerior
* Spanish: citerior

### References

* “citerior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “citerior”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* citerior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /θiteˈɾjoɾ/ [θi.t̪eˈɾjoɾ]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /siteˈɾjoɾ/ [si.t̪eˈɾjoɾ]
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Syllabification: ci‧te‧rior

### Adjective

citerior m or f (masculine and feminine plural citeriores)
* citerior

### Further reading

* “citerior”, 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