intermingle

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én

Proto-Indo-European *-tér

Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér

Proto-Italic *n̥ter

Latin inter

Latin inter-bor.

English inter-

English mingle

English intermingle

From inter- + mingle.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɪntəˈmɪŋɡl̩/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɪntəɹˈmɪŋɡ(ə)l/, [-ɾəɹ-]

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl
• Hyphenation: in‧ter‧ming‧le

Verb

intermingle (third-person singular simple present intermingles, present participle intermingling, simple past and past participle intermingled)

1. (transitive) To mix (things) together.
   • 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species:

     These representative species often meet and interlock; and as the one becomes rarer and rarer, the other becomes more and more frequent, till the one replaces the other. But if we compare these species where they intermingle, they are generally as absolutely distinct from each other in every detail of structure as are specimens taken from the metropolis inhabited by each.

2. (intransitive) To become mixed together.
   • 1959 October, “Station Reconstruction at Leeds”, in Railway Magazine, page 686:

     At present, passenger and goods traffic intermingle, a factor which complicates operation.

Synonyms

• interfuse (literary)

Derived terms

• intermingledness
• intermingledom
• intertwingle
• intertwingle (probably)
• unintermingled

Translations

to mix (things) together

• Bulgarian: смесвам (bg) (smesvam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: sekoittaa (fi)
• French: brasser (fr), entremêler (fr)
• Galician: mesturar (gl)
• Ido: intermixar (io)
• Italian: frammischiare
• Latin: commisceō, immisceō, immisceō, intermisceō, permisceō, remisceō
• Manx: covest
• Portuguese: incluir (pt), misturar (pt)
• Spanish: entreverar (es), entremezclar (es)

to become mixed together

• Bulgarian: смесвам се (smesvam se)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: sekoittua (fi)
• Japanese: 混じる (ja) (まじる, majiru)
• Spanish: entremezclarse (es), entreverarse (es)

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• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 叢雜 / 丛杂 (zh) (cóngzá)