into

English Online Dictionary. What means into‎? What does into mean?

English

Etymology

From Middle English in-to, from Old English intō, equivalent to in +‎ to. Cognate with Scots intae.

Pronunciation

• (stressed)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.tuː/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.tu/
• (unstressed, before consonants) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.tə/
• (unstressed, before vowels) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.tʊ/
• Rhymes: (unstressed, before consonants) -ɪntə
• Hyphenation: in‧to

Preposition

into

1. To or towards the inside of.
2. To or towards the region of.

3. Against, especially with force or violence.

4. Indicates transition into another form or substance.
5. Indicates division or the creation of subgroups or sections.
6. After the start of.
7. (colloquial) Interested in or attracted to.
8. (mathematics) Expressing the operation of division, with the denominator given first. Usually with "goes".

9. (British, archaic, India, mathematics) Expressing the operation of multiplication.

10. Investigating the subject (of).

Derived terms

Related terms

• in
• inside
• onto
• to

Translations

References

• Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Bounded landmarks", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8

Anagrams

• -tion, -toin, Toni, noit, oint, on it

Finnish

Etymology

Proto-Finnic *inta +‎ -o (compare dialectal inta, Estonian ind, Livonian ind), probably borrowed from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (compare Old Swedish inna (“achievement, accomplishment”)).

Alternatively, a Uralic origin has been proposed. Compare Komi-Zyrian ӧд (öd, “speed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈinto/, [ˈin̪t̪o̞]
• Rhymes: -into
• Syllabification^(key): in‧to

Noun

into

1. eagerness, enthusiasm

   odottaa innolla (+ partitive) ― to look forward to

2. passion, fervour/fervor, ardour/ardor
3. zeal, fanaticism

Usage notes

• "for X" = the illative, allative (general) or translative case (to emphasize the purpose or goal), "to (verb)" = the first infinitive (general) or the translative case of the -minen noun (to emphasize the purpose or goal).

Declension

Synonyms

• (eagerness, enthusiasm): innokkuus, innostus
• (passion, fervo(u)r, ardo(u)r): intohimo
• (zeal, fanaticism): kiihko

Derived terms

Further reading

• “into”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Anagrams

• Toni, otin, toin

Italian

Alternative forms

• intu

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Classical Latin intus (“within, inside”), from Proto-Italic *entos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁entós (“(from) inside”), derived from *h₁én (“in”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈin.to/
• Rhymes: -into
• Hyphenation: ìn‧to

Adverb

into

1. (obsolete) inside

   Synonym: dentro

References

• Accademia della Crusca (p. 1961), “into”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana (in Italian), volume 8, page 305

Ligurian

Etymology

Contraction of inte (“in”) + o m sg (“the”, definite article).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiŋtu/

Contraction

into

1. in the (+ a masculine name in the singular)

Synonyms

• ne-o

Coordinate terms

• inta
• inte
• inti

Middle English

Preposition

into

1. Alternative spelling of in-to

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin intus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ind̪ɐ]

Preposition

into

1. in (surrounded by)

Old English

Etymology

in +‎ tō

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈtoː/

Preposition

intō

1. into

Descendants

• Middle English: in-to, into, inne to, jn to, jne to, inte
  • English: into
  • Scots: intae

Southern Ndebele

Noun

întó class 9 (plural ízintó class 10)

1. thing

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Xhosa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [íːⁿtó]

Noun

íntó class 9 (plural ízintó class 10)

1. thing

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Yemsa

Noun

into

1. mother

References

• David Appleyard, Beja as a Cushitic language, in Egyptian and Semito-Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) Studies: In Memoriam W. Vycichl (Yem into "mother")

Zulu

Etymology

From in- +‎ -tha (“to name, to choose”) +‎ -o. Compare with a similar derivation in Swahili jambo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /îːntó/

Noun

întó class 9 (plural ízintó class 10)

1. thing

Inflection

References

• C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “-tho”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “-tho (2-6.3)”