Internet

See also internet, and Întèrnet

English

Wikipedia ^en

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)

  (file)

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.
   • 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xi

     […] if you think the Internet existed in 1970, I can only guess that the education system has left at least one child behind.

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

Related terms

• extranet
• intranet

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)
• 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
• 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)
• Jèrriais: Întèrnet m

• Khmer: អ៊ីនធឺណិត (km) (intʰɨɨnet), អន្តរៈបណ្ដាញ (km) (ɑndɑɑbandarnh)
• Korean: 인터넷 (ko) (inteonet) (South Korea); 인터네트 (ko) (inteoneteu) (North Korea)
• Lao: ອິນເຕີເນັດ (lo) (in-toe-net)
• Latin: interrete (la) n, internexus (la) m
• Latvian: internets (lv) m
• Lithuanian: internetas (lt) m
• Macedonian: интернет (mk) (ínternet) m, семрежје (mk) (sémrežje) m
• Malay: Internet (ms)
• 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), nätet (sv)
• Tajik: интернет (tg) (internet) 
• Telugu: అంతర్జాలం (te) (antarjaalam)
• 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

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

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

Wikipedia ^de

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

  (file)

Noun

Internet f (invariable)

1. Alternative form of Internet.

Anagrams

• nitrente, trentine

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Polish

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

From English Internet

Pronunciation

• IPA: /inˈtɛrnɛt/ or /intɛrˈnɛt/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Internet m

1. (Internet) the Internet

Declension

    declension of Internet

	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