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carceral.

Of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison.

8 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈkɑːsəɹəl/Received-Pronunciation/ˈkɑːsɹl̩/Received-Pronunciation/ˈkɑɹsəɹəl/General-American/ˈkɑɹsɹl̩/General-American
  1. Of or pertaining to imprisonment or a prison.

    formal · literary · not-comparable
Where this word comes from

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).

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