Definitions For Carceral

Adjective

(not comparable) (formal, or, literary) Of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison. from late 16th c.

Coordinate terms

penal, penitentiary, , of or relating to the punishment of criminals

Derived terms

carcerality carcerally

Related terms

{{rel3, en, carcerate, carceration, decarcerate, decarceration, disincarcerate, disincarceration, incarcerate, incarceration}}

Translations

Chinese: : Mandarin: 監獄的}}, {{t, cmn, 监狱的 (jiānyùde) Estonian: vanglalik Finnish: vankila- French: carcéral, m, carcérale, f Hungarian: börtön- Ido: karcerala Latin: carcerālis Spanish: carcelario, m

Etymology

From {{der, en, LL., carcerālis, , carceral}}, from {{der, en, la, carcer, , jail, prison}} (ultimately from {{der, en, ine-pro, *(s)ker-, , to bend, turn, in the sense of an enclosure}}) + -ālis, , suffix forming adjectives of relationship from nouns.{{R:OED Online, part of speech=adj, id=27812, date=1888, nodot=yes}}; {{R:Lexico}}