English Online Dictionary. What means interim? What does interim mean?
English
Etymology
From Latin interim (“meanwhile”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɪntəɹɪm/
- Hyphenation: in‧ter‧im
Adjective
interim (not comparable)
- Transitional.
- Temporary.
- Synonyms: provisional, (UK) caretaker
Translations
Noun
interim (plural interims)
- A transitional or temporary period between other events.
- Synonyms: between-time; see also Thesaurus:interim
Derived terms
Related terms
- ad interim
Translations
Anagrams
- Termini, mintier, termini
Latin
Etymology
From inter + im, archaic adverb from the stem of the pronoun is (“that, this”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈin.te.rim/, [ˈɪn̪t̪ɛrɪ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈin.te.rim/, [ˈin̪t̪erim]
Adverb
interim (not comparable)
- meanwhile, in the meantime
- (post-Augustan) for a while
- (post-Augustan) sometimes
- Synonyms: interdum, nōnnumquam, aliquandō
Synonyms
- interea, dum
Derived terms
- dum interim
Descendants
- Asturian: entrín, intre
- Sardinian: interi, interis (adverbial -s)
- → English: interim
- → Galician: intre (semi-learned)
- → German: Interim
References
- “interim”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “interim”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- interim in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- interim in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.