Starptautisk

Starptautisks is a Latvian adjective meaning international, relating to relations between nations or to the international community. It is used to describe people, organizations, agreements, events, and other phenomena that involve more than one country. The term appears in a wide range of contexts, from diplomacy and law to business, culture, and sport.

In Latvian grammar, starptautisks inflects for gender and number to agree with the noun it modifies. Common examples include starptautisks uzņēmums (an international company), starptautiskas attiecības (international relations), and starptautisks turnīrs (an international tournament). The adverbial form is starptautiski, used to describe actions carried out in an international manner, as in: the event was conducted starptautiski.

Etymology and development: starptautisks is a compound formed with the prefix starp- meaning “between” or “among” and a root related to tautas or tautas, reflecting nations or peoples. The word codifies the sense of cross-border or multinational scope and has become standard in official and everyday Latvian since the 20th century, paralleling terms in other European languages for international affairs.

Usage notes: Starptautisks is common in official language, media, academia, and corporate discourse. It often appears in phrases describing cross-border cooperation, international law, global markets, and multinational organizations. While primarily a neutral descriptor, it can carry connotations of formal or global scope depending on context.

See also: international law, international relations, multinational corporation, cross-border cooperation.