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Territorial comes from Latin territorium ‘territory’, from terra ‘land’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ters- ‘dry’.

1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*ters-¹‘dry’reconstructed
2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*terzā¹‘earth’reconstructed
3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEterra²‘land’
4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEterritorium³‘territory’
5. Late Latinc. 200–600 CEterritorialis³
6. Englishearliest quotation 1918territorial³

1. ¹ Wiktionary, Latin terra
2. ² Wiktionary, Latin territorium
3. ³ Wiktionary, English territorial
4. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1918, Woodrow Wilson, Fourteen Points: “Rumania, Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated ; occupied…”.