later

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English

Etymology

• Adverb: From Middle English later, latere, from Old English lator, equivalent to late +‎ -er.
• Adjective: From Middle English later, latere, from Old English lætra, equivalent to late +‎ -er.

Cognate with Saterland Frisian leeter (“later”), West Frisian letter (“later”), Dutch later (“later”), German Low German later (“later”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈleɪtə/
• (US) enPR: lāʹtər, IPA^(key): /ˈleɪtɚ/, [ˈleɪ̯ɾɚ]
• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Adverb

later

1. comparative form of late: more late

2. Afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).

3. At some unspecified time in the future.

4. (Manglish, Singlish) What if (something problematic or unanticipated happens); if not (something undesirable will happen).

   Compare Malay nanti (“later; if not”)

   Synonym: (Singlish) sekali

   Later you fall asleep how? ― What if you fall asleep?

Synonyms

• (afterward in time): afterwards, hereafter; see also Thesaurus:subsequently
• (at some unspecified time in the future): later on, someday; see also Thesaurus:one day

Antonyms

• earlier
• (antonym(s) of “At some unspecified time in the future”): once

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

later

1. comparative form of late: more late

2. Coming afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).
3. Coming afterward in distance (following an antecedent distance as embedded within an adverbial phrase)

4. At some time in the future.

Antonyms

• earlier

Translations

Interjection

later

1. (slang) See you later; goodbye.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Alert, alert, alter, alter-, altre, artel, ratel, taler, telar

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaː.tər/
• Rhymes: -aːtər

Adjective

later

1. comparative degree of laat
2. having to do with or occurring in the future

Declension

Antonyms

• eerder
• vroeger

Adverb

later

1. later
2. in the future

Antonyms

• eerder

Interjection

later

1. bye, later

   Synonyms: dag, doei, doeg, houdoe, tabee, vaarwel

Anagrams

• alert, ratel

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain.

• Possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”).
• Perhaps from *stelh₃- (“broad”), in which case latus (“side, flank”) would be its neuter form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɫa.tɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈlaː.t̪er]

Noun

later m (genitive lateris); third declension

1. brick, tile
2. ingot, bar (of precious metal)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

Further reading

• “later”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “later”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• later in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “later”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “later”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French terre.

Noun

later

1. land, earth, soil

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

later

1. present of late

Old Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse latr, from Proto-Germanic *lataz.

Adjective

later

1. lazy, sluggish

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: lat

Etymology 2

Verb

later

1. first/second/third-person singular present active indicative of lata

Seychellois Creole

Etymology

From French terre.

Noun

later

1. land, earth, soil

Swedish

Noun

later

1. indefinite plural of lat

Anagrams

• alert, artel, letar, realt