Area (country subdivision)

The term area (from Middle High German: climes, given note ) denotes that which is " present " to the viewer as an area or space.

Origin

The term derives from "against" and ( " the opposite field " Contrata regio ) migrated as Lehnbildung from Latin contra in the German language.

The Latin root persists in languages ​​such as Italian ( contrada " area " ) or in French: ( Contrée "landscape" ), derived from English: Country.

Importance

The term linguistic area constituted the ( geographic ) space. An analogy offers the category object ("the opposite, over Cast" ) with respect to the subject. The subject constituted in the property sector the object as a thing category; in the space domain, the setting on the place beyond the area. Unlike many similar terms is the word around the strangeness own.

Certain terms (identified below) extend beyond its importance on specific geobezogene sizes, others do not. Thus, for example, " area " a group of people ( " the whole area was located on the legs " ) or a neighborhood feel ( " he makes the whole area unsafe "), but also a body region.

Today, there are numerous overlaps in the language with similar names.