communal
English
/kəˈmjuː.nəl/, /kəˈmju.nəl/
adj
Definitions
- pertaining to a community
- shared by a community; public
- (India) defined by religious ideas; based on religion
Etymology
Borrowed from French communal derived from Latin commūnālis, commūnis (common, public, general, universal, shared).
Origin
Latin
commūnis
Gloss
common, public, general, universal, shared
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bicommunal English
- communalise English
- communalism English
- communalistic English
- communality English
- communalize English
- communally English
- ecocommunal English
- ecocommunalism English
- intercommunal English
- intercommunality English
- intercommunally English
- intracommunal English
- intracommunally English
- multicommunal English
- noncommunal English
- pseudocommunal English
- uncommunal English
- communalis Latin
- communico Latin
- communis Latin
- communismus Latin
- communitas Latin
- communiter Latin
- commūnia Latin
- commūnis Latin
- commūniō Latin
- commūnālis Latin
- Kommunismus German
- kommunal German
- comune Italian
- communal French
- communalité French
- intercommunal French
- común Spanish, Castilian
- excomulgar Spanish, Castilian
- *ko-moin-i Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱom-moy-ni- Proto-Indo-European
- kommunal Norwegian Bokmål
- comum Portuguese
- komuna Polish
- komunalny Polish
- komunizm Polish
- kommunal Norwegian Nynorsk
- kommunal Danish
- komuna Czech
- comun Old French
- comú Catalan, Valencian
- kommi Icelandic
- común Galician
- común Asturian
- cominal Old Occitan
- quemun Mirandese