parochial

Meaning

Adjective

• Pertaining to a parish.
• Characterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary in scope or outlook.

Origin

• From Anglo-Norman parochial and its source Late Latin parochialis, an alteration of paroecialis, from paroecia, from Hellenistic Greek παροικία, later “community, diocese”, from Ancient Greek πάροικος, from παρα- + οἶκος.