Starptautiskas

Starptautiskas is a Latvian adjective meaning international, referring to relations, organizations, events, or issues that involve more than one country. It is the feminine plural form of starptautisks, and is used to describe feminine plural nouns (for example, starptautiskas organizācijas, starptautiskas attiecības).

In Latvian grammar, adjectives agree with the gender and number of the nouns they modify. Therefore starptautiskas accompanies feminine plural nouns, such as organizations (organizācijas), agreements (līgumi is masculine, so not an example here), and conferences (konferences, feminine). Common collocations include starptautiskas attiecības (international relations), starptautiskas organizācijas (international organizations), and starptautiskas konferences (international conferences).

Etymology and formation: the word is formed from the stem starptaut- with the standard Latvian adjective suffix -iskas to produce the feminine plural form. The base starptauts denotes the concept of international or between-nations, and starptautisks variants align with different gender-number forms.

Usage context: starptautiskas is widely used in official, legal, academic, and media language when describing phenomena that cross national borders or involve multiple countries. It can appear in governmental documents, diplomatic discourse, international law, and interdisciplinary studies discussing global or cross-border issues.

Notes: while often described as synonymous with “international,” the term is specifically a Latvian form and its exact inflections depend on the noun it modifies. In English-language contexts, the equivalent term is typically translated as international.