enter

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English

Alternative forms

• entre (archaic, before circa 1700)

Etymology

From Middle English entren, from Old French entrer, from Latin intrō (“enter”, verb), from intrā (“inside”). Has been spelled as "enter" for several centuries even in the United Kingdom, although British English and the English of many Commonwealth Countries (e.g. Australia, Canada) retain the "re" ending for many words such as centre, fibre, spectre, theatre, calibre, sombre, lustre, and litre.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛntə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛntɚ/, [ˈɛɾ̃ɚ]
  • (pin–pen merger, nt-flapping) IPA^(key): [ˈɪɾ̃ɚ]
• Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)
• Homophone: inner (pin–pen merger, nt-flapping)
• Hyphenation: en‧ter

Verb

enter (third-person singular simple present enters, present participle entering, simple past and past participle entered)

1. (intransitive) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
2. (transitive) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.

3. (figuratively) To go or come into (a state or profession).
5. (transitive) To type (something) into a computer; to input.

6. (transitive) To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.
7. (intransitive, law) To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.
8. (law, intransitive) To become effective; to come into effect.
9. (law) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
10. (transitive, law) To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order

11. To make report of (a vessel or its cargo) at the custom house; to submit a statement of (imported goods), with the original invoices, to the proper customs officer for estimating the duties. See entry.
12. (transitive, US, dated, historical) To file, or register with the land office, the required particulars concerning (a quantity of public land) in order to entitle a person to a right of preemption.
13. To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.).

14. (transitive, obsolete) To initiate; to introduce favourably.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• go in, ingo
• come in

Antonyms

• (intransitive) exit

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

enter (plural enters)

1. (computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“the computer key”)
2. (computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“a stroke of the computer key”)

Translations

References

• “enter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• entre, rente, terne, treen

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish entero (displacing older Catalan forms such as entegre), from Latin integrum. Compare Occitan entièr, French entier, Spanish entero. Doublet of íntegre, a later borrowing from Latin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ənˈter]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [enˈter]

Adjective

enter (feminine entera, masculine plural enters, feminine plural enteres)

1. entire, whole, complete

   Synonym: sencer

Derived terms

• enterament
• nombre enter

Noun

enter m (plural enters)

1. whole number, integer

   Synonyms: nombre enter, nombre sencer

2. a complete lottery ticket (made up of ten dècims)

Related terms

• entregar

Further reading

• “enter” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “enter” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Finnish

Etymology

From English Enter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈent(ː)er/, [ˈe̞n̪t̪(ː)e̞r]
• Rhymes: -enter
• Hyphenation^(key): en‧ter

Noun

enter

1. Enter (computer key)

Declension

Derived terms

French

Etymology

From a Vulgar Latin *imptāre, contraction of *imputāre (“to graft”) (unrelated to Latin imputō (“to reckon, attribute”)), from inpotus (attested in Salic Law), from Ancient Greek ἔμφυτος (émphutos, “planted”). The Greek word may have actually reached Gaul through traders at the Mediterranean coastal colonies before the Roman conquest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.te/

Verb

enter

1. (agriculture) to graft
2. to implant

Conjugation

Further reading

• “enter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• entre, entré
• rente, renté
• terne

Gaulish

Alternative forms

• entar

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *enter (“between”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁enter (“between”). Cognates include Celtiberian entara (“between”), Old Irish eter (“between”) (Irish idir (“between, both”)), Latin inter (“between”), Sanskrit अन्तर् (antár, “between, within, into”), Oscan 𐌀𐌍𐌕𐌄𐌓 (anter, “between”), and Old High German untar (“between”).

Preposition

enter

1. between, among

References

• Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, published 2003, →ISBN, page 163.
• Ranko Matasović, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic, published 2009, →ISBN, page 117.

German

Pronunciation

Verb

enter

1. inflection of entern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛn.tɛr/
• Rhymes: -ɛntɛr
• Syllabification: en‧ter

Noun

enter m inan

1. (computing) Enter (key on a computer keyboard)

Declension

Further reading

• enter in Polish dictionaries at PWN