Dictionary

periphery en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /pəˈɹɪf.ə.ɹi/ (Australia, Canada, UK, US)
• pə-rĭf′ə-rē (Australia, Canada, UK, US)
• [pəˈɹɪf.ɹi] (Australia, Canada, UK, US)
• (US) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der. Ancient Greek περί (perí) Ancient Greek περῐ- (perĭ-) Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti Proto-Hellenic *pʰérō Ancient Greek φέρω (phérō) Ancient Greek περιφέρω (periphérō) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Proto-Hellenic *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -ής (-ḗs) Ancient Greek περιφερής (peripherḗs) Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂der. Ancient Greek -ια (-ia) Ancient Greek περιφέρεια (periphéreia)bor. Latin peripheriabor. Middle French peripheriebor. English periphery Borrowed from Middle French peripherie. Compare Middle English periferie (“one of three layers of atmosphere (lower, middle, and upper) believed to surround the Earth”), from the same origin, although the Modern English term most likely does not descend from it.

Meanings

1. The outside boundary, parts or surface of something.
   • The phrase 'Imperial Manila' is used throughout the archipelago to denote the capital-heavy decision-making and the imposition of the will and culture of the political and economic centre on the peripheries. 2018, Balázs Áron Kovács, Peace Infrastructures and State-Building at the Margins, Springer, →ISBN, page 280:
   • Tumor location was concentrated in the macula and superonasal periphery in patients 13.2 months. 2015 January 8, “Spatiotemporal Patterns of Tumor Occurrence in Children with Intraocular Retinoblastoma”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
   • The suburbs are a city's periphery.
2. A first-rank administrative division of Greece, subdivided into provinces.
3. The more anomalous and infrequent aspects of a language, as opposed to the frequent and regular core aspects.

Forms

Antonyms

center

Deriveds

midperiphery · left periphery · peripherolobular · semiperiphery

Relateds

peripheral · peripherad

Translations (51)

tr periferi (Greek administrative region) · sl rob (outside boundary, parts or surface) · ja 周辺 (outside boundary, parts or surface) · pl skraj (outside boundary, parts or surface) · fi syrjäseutu (outside boundary, parts or surface) · it periferia (outside boundary, parts or surface) · pl obrzeże (outside boundary, parts or surface) · ru перифери́я (outside boundary, parts or surface) · sl obrobje (Greek administrative region) · pt periferia (Greek administrative region) · cmn 周邊 /周边 (outside boundary, parts or surface) · el περιφέρεια (Greek administrative region) · tr çevre (outside boundary, parts or surface) · ca perifèria (Greek administrative region) · tr periferi (outside boundary, parts or surface) · cmn 外圍 /外围 (outside boundary, parts or surface) · ru перифери́я (Greek administrative region) · grc περιφέρεια (outside boundary, parts or surface) · az ucqar (outside boundary, parts or surface) · nl periferie (outside boundary, parts or surface) · nl buitenkant (outside boundary, parts or surface) · id pinggir (outside boundary, parts or surface) · gd iomall (outside boundary, parts or surface) · pl kraniec (outside boundary, parts or surface) · be перыферы́я (outside boundary, parts or surface) · da periferi (outside boundary, parts or surface) · es periferia (outside boundary, parts or surface) · uk перифері́я (outside boundary, parts or surface) · ota چوره (outside boundary, parts or surface) · tr civar (outside boundary, parts or surface) · el περιφέρεια (outside boundary, parts or surface) · hy ծայրամաս (outside boundary, parts or surface) · ro periferie (outside boundary, parts or surface) · bg периферия (outside boundary, parts or surface) · de Peripherie (outside boundary, parts or surface) · ru окра́ина (outside boundary, parts or surface) · fr périphérie (outside boundary, parts or surface) · cs okraj (outside boundary, parts or surface) · pl peryferie (outside boundary, parts or surface) · id tepi (outside boundary, parts or surface) · da udkant (outside boundary, parts or surface) · uk перифері́я (Greek administrative region) · id ujung (outside boundary, parts or surface) · hu periféria (outside boundary, parts or surface) · pl pogranicze (outside boundary, parts or surface) · ka პერიფერია (outside boundary, parts or surface) · pl kresy (outside boundary, parts or surface) · ca perifèria (outside boundary, parts or surface) · pt periferia (outside boundary, parts or surface) · tr dolay (outside boundary, parts or surface) · tr etraf (outside boundary, parts or surface)