English Online Dictionary. What means inter? What does inter mean?
English
Alternative forms
- enter (obsolete, pre-Latinised spelling)
Etymology
From Middle English enteren, borrowed from Old French enterrer, enterer, from Vulgar Latin *interrāre (“to put in earth”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪnˈtɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪnˈtɜː(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Verb
inter (third-person singular simple present inters, present participle interring, simple past and past participle interred)
- To bury in a grave.
- Synonyms: bury, inearth, entomb, inhume
- Antonyms: dig up, disentomb, disinter, exhume, unearth
- To confine, as in a prison.
Usage notes
- The spellings intering (for interring) and intered (for interred) exist as well, but are much less common.
Derived terms
- reinter
Related terms
Translations
See also
Anagrams
- terin, riten., n-tier, inert, -retin, -retin-, retin, Trine, nitre, niter, Tiner, Terni, trine
Esperanto
Etymology
From Latin inter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈinter]
- Rhymes: -inter
- Hyphenation: in‧ter
Preposition
inter
- between
- among
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.tɛʁ/
Noun
inter m (uncountable)
- (historical) Short for interurbain (“long-distance phone service”).
Further reading
- “inter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Ido
Etymology
Borrowed from Esperanto inter, English inter-, French inter-, Italian inter-, Spanish inter-, from Latin inter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈin.ter/, /ˈin.tɛɾ/
Preposition
inter
- between, among
- (figuratively) division, exchange, reciprocity
Antonyms
- exter
Derived terms
- inter-
Javanese
Romanization
inter
- Romanization of ꦲꦶꦤ꧀ꦠꦼꦂ
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *ənter, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér (“between”). Cognates include Sanskrit अन्तर् (antár, “between, within, into”), Oscan 𐌀𐌍𐌕𐌄𐌓 (anter, “between”), Old Irish eter (“between”), Albanian ndër (“between, among, amid, throughout”), Old High German untar (“between”) and German unter (“among”).
PIE adverb *h₁entér gave rise to the adjective *h₁énteros (“inner, what is inside”), whence also interior (“interior”) and intrā (“inside, within”).
The change from instrumental/ablative and accusative to accusative only is caused by *-teros used adverbially.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈin.ter/, [ˈɪn̪t̪ɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈin.ter/, [ˈin̪t̪er]
Preposition
inter (+ accusative)
- between, among
- during, while
Derived terms
- inter-
- interim
Related terms
- internus
- interior
- intrā
- intrō
- (perhaps) intestīnus
Descendants
References
- “inter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “inter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- inter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- inter in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “inter”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 324
Sardinian
Alternative forms
- intre
Etymology
From Latin inter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /inter/
Preposition
inter
- between, among
- Synonym: intra
Yagara
Pronoun
inter
- Alternative form of nginda.
References
- State Library of Queensland, 2019 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES ‘WORD OF THE WEEK’: WEEK FIVE., 29 January 2019.