Internet

See also internet

English

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Alternative forms

• internet (see Usage notes below)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈɪntəˌnɛt/, X-SAMPA: /"Int@%nEt/
• (US) enPR: ĭnʹtərnĕt', IPA: /ˈɪntɚˌnɛt/, /ˈɪɾ̃ɚˌnɛt/, X-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. 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 (is) m., Internet (is) n., netið (is) 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. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: интернет (sh) m. Roman: internet (sh) m. Sinhalese: අන්තර්ජාලය (si) Spanish: Internet (es) c., 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) Vüresod (vo) Welsh: Rhyngrwyd (cy)

Anagrams

• renitent

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Finnish

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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

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Etymology

From English Internet.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.nɛt/

Proper noun

Internet m.

1. the Internet

Usage notes

Generally used without the definite article in French, unlike English; thus "on the Internet" in French is sur Internet.

Synonyms

• internet

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German

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Etymology

Borrowed from English Internet.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɪntɐnɛt/

Noun

Internet n.

1. internet (internet)

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Icelandic

Wikipedia ^is

Etymology

Borrowed 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

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Noun

Internet f. inv.

1. Alternative form of Internet.

Anagrams

• nitrente, trentine

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Polish

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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