Meaning
1 senses(formal, literary, not comparable)Of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison.
Gefängnis-
тюре́мныйtjurémnyj
в'язни́чнийvʺjaznýčnyj, тюре́мнийtjurémnyj
Examples
1 sentencesAbolish the carceral state.
Translations
6 languagesУкраїнська
By meaning 1
of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison:
Русский
By meaning 1
of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison:
Origin
From Late Latin carcerālis (“carceral”), from Latin carcer (“jail, prison”) (ultimately frFrom Late Latin carcerālis (“carceral”), from Latin carcer (“jail, prison”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, turn, in the sense of an enclosure”)) + -ālis (suffix forming relational adjectives).
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