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central¹

  • /ˈsɛntɹ(ə)l/
  • [ˈsɛ̟ntɹ̝̊əl] ~ [ˈsɛ̟ntɹ̝̊l̩]
  • /ˈsɪntɹ(ə)l/
  • [ˈsɪ̟ntɹ̝̊əl] ~ [ˈsɪ̟ntɹ̝̊l̩]

Rhymes with -ɛntɹəl

Where it comes from

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱen-?

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Indo-European *-trom

Proto-Indo-European *ḱéntrom

Proto-Hellenic *kéntron

Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron)bor.

Latin centrum

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin centrālisbor.

English central

Borrowed from Latin centrālis, from centrum (“centre”), from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron); by surface analysis, centre + -al.

adjective more central · most central · centralmost · centremost · centermost

  1. Being in the centre. 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.
  2. Having or containing the centre of something.
  3. Being very important, or key to something. 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.
  4. Exerting its action towards the peripheral organs.
  5. Of an element of an algebraic structure: which commutes with all other elements under multiplication
  6. Of a unital algebra over a field: whose center is exactly equal to the image of the base field

noun centrals

  1. US, especially center

Central²

Where it comes from

From central.

proper noun

  1. A former local government region in central Scotland, created in 1975 mainly from Stirlingshire, abolished in 1996 and divided into 3 council areas: Clackmannanshire, Falkirk and Stirling (which were districts within the region).
  2. An area of Central and Western district, Hong Kong. The best places to find “siu sik” (“small eats” in Cantonese) are in the labyrinthine streets Causeway Bay and Tsim Sha Tsui. There is very little of this in sanitized Central.
  3. The Central Line of the London Underground, originally known as the Central London Railway.
  4. A district of Rasht County, Gilan Province, Iran.

adjective

  1. not comparable Of or pertaining to the Central Powers. On this score, then, it is quite clear that up to now neither the Entente nor the Central armies have been outmanœuvred, or indeed have invented a weapon of offence that has produced decisive results.

Central³

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Spanish Central.

proper noun

  1. A barangay of Kapangan, Benguet, Philippines.
  2. A barangay of Tarlac City, Tarlac, Philippines.

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