Internet

See also internet

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• internet (see Usage notes below)

Etymology

(1986) Coined by the U.S. Defense Department, shortening of internetwork.

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈɪntəˌnɛt/, SAMPA: /"Int@%nEt/
• (US) enPR: ĭnʹtərnĕt', IPA: /ˈɪntɚˌnɛt/, /ˈɪɾ̃ɚˌnɛt/, SAMPA: /Int3`%nEt/, /"I4~%nEt/

• Audio (UK)

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Proper noun

Internet

1. The specific internet consisting of a global network of computers that communicate using Internet Protocol (IP) and that use Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to identify the best paths to route those communications.

Usage notes

• Usage in reference to the global network is normally capitalised, reserving internet with a lower-case i for any other set of computer networks connected by internetworking.
• However popular usage (e.g. BBC and Timesonline) increasingly spells it with a lower-case i.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:Internet

Translations

specific internet consisting of the global network of computers

Afrikaans: internet (af) American Sign Language: Open8@Finger-TipUp-Open8@CenterChesthigh-TipUp Twist-Twist Arabic: إنترنت (ar) ('internet, 'intarnit) m. Armenian: ինտերնետ (hy) (internet), (rare) համացանց (hy) (hamac’anc’) Belarusian: інтэрнэт (be) (internét) m. Bengali: ইন্টারনেট (bn) (inṭārôneṭô) Bosnian: internet (bs) m. Bulgarian: интернет (bg) (internét) m. Burmese: အင်တာနက် (my) (intanet) Catalan: Internet (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 互聯網 (cmn), 互联网 (cmn) (hùliánwǎng), 網絡 (cmn), 网络 (cmn) (wǎngluò) (PRC), 網路 (cmn), 网路 (cmn) (wǎnglù) (Taiwan), 因特網 (cmn), 因特网 (cmn) (Yīntèwǎng) Czech: internet (cs) m., Internet (cs) m. Danish: internet (da) n. Dutch: internet (nl) n. Esperanto: Interreto (eo), (attributive) interreta (eo), reto (eo) Faroese: Alnetið (fo) n., internet (fo) Finnish: Internet (fi), netti (fi) French: Internet (fr) m., internet (fr) m. Georgian: ინტერნეტი (ka) (interneti) German: Internet (de) n. Kölsch: Engornät Greek: Διαδίκτυο (el) (Diadíktyo) n., ίντερνετ (el) (ínternet) n., διαδίκτυο (el) (δiaδíktyo) n. Haitian Creole: entènèt Hebrew: מרשתת (he) (mirśetet) f., אינטרנט (he) (ínternet) f. Hindi: अन्तरजाल (hi) (antarjāl), इन्टरनेट (hi) (inṭarneṭ) Hungarian: világháló (hu), internet (hu) Icelandic: Veraldarvefurinn m., Internet n., netið n. Ido: interneto (io) Irish: Idirlíon (ga) m. Italian: Internet (it) f.

Japanese: インターネット (ja) (intānetto), ネット (ja) (netto) Khmer: អ៊ីនធឺណិត (km) (intʰɨɨnet), អន្តរពន្ធ (km) (ɑndɑɑpʊən) Korean: 인터넷 (ko) (inteonet) (South Korea); 인터네트 (ko) (inteoneteu) (North Korea) Lao: ອິນເຕີເນັດ (lo) (in-toe-net) Latin: interrete (la) n., internexus (la) m. Lithuanian: internetas (lt) m. Macedonian: интернет (mk) (ínternet) m., семрежје (mk) (sémrežje) m. Marathi: इंटरनेट (mr) (inṭarneṭ) Mongolian: интернэт (mn) (internét) Navajo: Béésh Łichíiʼii Bee Ééhoozinígíí, hiiłos Nepali: इन्टरनेट (ne) (inṭarneṭ) Norwegian: Internett (no) Persian: اینترنت (fa) (internet) Polish: Internet (pl) m. Portuguese: Internet (pt) f. Russian: интернет (ru) (intɛrnɛ́t) m. Scottish Gaelic: eadar-lìon (gd) m., Eadar-lìon (gd) m. Serbian: Cyrillic: интернет m. Roman: internet m. Sinhalese: අන්තර්ජාලය (si) Spanish: internet (es) m., Red (es) f. Swedish: Internet (sv), internet (sv) Tajik: интернет (tg) (internet) Thai: อินเทอร์เน็ต (th) (in-têr-nét) Turkish: İnternet (tr), Genel Ağ (tr) Ukrainian: інтернет (uk) (internét) m. Urdu: انٹرنیٹ (ur) (inṭarneṭ), شبکہ (ur) (śabka) Volapük: bevüresod (vo), (shortened form) vüresod (vo), Bevüresod (vo), (shortened form) Büresod (vo) Welsh: Rhyngrwyd

Anagrams

• renitent

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Finnish

Wikipedia ^fi

Etymology

From English Internet.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈin̪t̪e̞rne̞t̪]
• Hyphenation: in‧ter‧net

Proper noun

Internet

1. (Internet) the Internet

Declension

Declension of Internet (type risti) singular plural nominative Internet – genitive Internetin – partitive Internetiä – accusative Internet Internetin – inessive Internetissä – elative Internetistä – illative Internetiin – adessive Internetillä – ablative Internetiltä – allative Internetille – essive Internetinä – translative Internetiksi – instructive – – abessive Internetittä – comitative – –

Synonyms

• (colloquial) netti
• (colloquial) verkko
• (colloquial, imprecisely) veppi, weppi
• (imprecisely) www

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French

Wikipedia ^fr

Etymology

From English Internet.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.nɛt/

Proper noun

Internet m.

1. the Internet

Synonyms

• internet

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German

Internet

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɪntɐnɛt/

Noun

Internet n.

1. internet (internet)

This German entry was created from the translations listed at internet. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see Internet in the German Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) August 2010

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Icelandic

Wikipedia ^is

Etymology

From English Internet.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɪn̥tɛrˌnɛːt/

Proper noun

Internet n.

1. (usually definite) the Internet

Declension

declension of Internet

n-s	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	Internet	Internetið	Internet	Internetin
accusative	Internet	Internetið	Internet	Internetin
dative	Interneti	Internetinu	Internetum	Internetunum
genitive	Internets	Internetsins	Interneta	Internetanna

Synonyms

• (Internet): net, alnet

See also

• Veraldarvefur

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

Internet f. inv.

1. Alternative form of internet.

Anagrams

• nitrente, trentine

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Polish

Wikipedia ^pl

Pronunciation

• IPA: /inˈtɛrnɛt/ or /intɛrˈnɛt/

Proper noun

Internet m.

1. (Internet) the Internet

Declension

	Singular only
Nominative	Internet
Genitive	Internetu
Dative	Internetowi
Accusative	Internet
Instrumental	Internetem
Locative	Internecie
Vocative	Internecie

Derived terms

• internetowy

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /înternet/
• Hyphenation: In‧ter‧net

Proper noun

Ȉnternet m. (Cyrillic spelling И̏нтернет)

1. Internet

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Swedish

Proper noun

Internet

1. the global Internet