carceral

== English == === Etymology === From 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). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɑːsəɹəl/, /ˈkɑːsɹl̩/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑɹsəɹəl/, /ˈkɑɹsɹl̩/ Hyphenation: car‧cer‧al, carce‧ral === Adjective === carceral (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 ==== ==== Translations ==== === References ===