English

local

/ˈləʊ.kl̩/
From or in a nearby location.

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    Origin

    From Middle English local, from Late Latin locālis (“belonging to a place”), possibly also via Old French local; ultimately from Latin locus (“a place”).

    The ring-theoretic senses derive from Krull, who first referred to Noetherian commutative rings with a unique maximal ideal as "Stellenring" (Stellen (“place”) + ring) in 1938. The term was inspired by algebraic geometry, where local rings encode information about the behavior of curves (surfaces, etc.) at points; hence, describe "local" behavior.

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    • rootProto-Indo-European*stel- “to place, stand; be stiff; stud, post, trunk, stake, stem, stalk”
    • inheritedMiddle Englishlocal
      • derivedLate Latinlocālis “belonging to a place”
        • derivedOld Frenchlocal
          • derived (ultimately)Latinlocus “a place”
            • inheritedOld Latinstlocus
              • inheritedProto-Italic*stlokos
      • partGermanStellen “place”
      • partGermanring

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