iter

See also: -iter and iter.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin iter (“passage”).

Noun

iter (plural iters)

1. (anatomy) A passage, especially the passage between the third and fourth ventricles in the brain; the cerebral aqueduct.
   • 1916, Mayo Clinic, Collected Papers of the Mayo Clinic and the Mayo Foundation (page 869)

     This fluid passes through the main iters which connect the various ventricles and filters through the thin membranes of the brain and cord, equalizing the pressure at all points.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for iter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• REIT, Teri, reit, rite, tier, tire, trie

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin iter (“route”).

Noun

iter m (invariable)

1. procedure, course

   Synonyms: procedura, corso

Anagrams

• erti, etri, irte, reti

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Latin

Etymology

Conflation of an r/n-stem (where both stems are conflated, thus gen. itineris from inherited *itinis and analogical *iteris; compare iecur and fēmur), from Proto-Indo-European reconstructed as *h₁éy-tr̥ ~ *h₁i-tén-, from *h₁ey- (whence eō). Cognate with Tocharian A ytārye (“path, road”), Avestan 𐬌𐬚𐬥𐬀‎ (iθna) in 𐬞𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌-𐬌𐬚𐬥𐬀-‎ (paⁱri-iθna-, “(end of) lifetime”). Traditionally considered cognate also with Hittite 𒄿𒋻 (itar), a hapax legomenon widely believed to mean “road, path”, but in recent years the existence of this word has come into question, and it has been reinterpreted as a misreading and a ghost word.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ter/, [ˈɪt̪ɛr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ter/, [ˈiːt̪ɛr]

• Audio (classical)

  (file)

Noun

iter n (genitive itineris); third declension

1. a route, whether:
   1. a journey, trip
   2. a march
   3. a course
   4. a path; a road

      Synonym: via

   5. (Medieval Latin, law) a court circuit
2. (Medieval Latin, medicine) a passage

Usage notes

Used in the phrase in itinere to mean abroad.

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	iter	itinera
Genitive	itineris	itinerum
Dative	itinerī	itineribus
Accusative	iter	itinera
Ablative	itinere	itineribus
Vocative	iter	itinera

Derived terms

• itinerārium
• itinerārius
• itinerātor
• itineror
• porta itinerī longissima

 

Descendants

• Old French: erre, eirre, oirre
  • French: erre
• → English: itinerary, iter
• → Italian: iter

References

• iter in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• iter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to finish a very long journey: longum itineris spatium emetiri
    
  • to return from a journey: ex itinere redire
    
  • on a journey; by the way: in itinere
    
  • travelling day and night: itinera diurna nocturnaque
    
  • to spare oneself the trouble of the voyage: labore supersedēre (itineris) (Fam. 4. 2. 4)
    
  • by forced marches: magnis itineribus (Sall. Iug. 37)
    
  • by the longest possible forced marches: quam maximis itineribus (potest)
    
  • to change one's route and march towards..: averso itinere contendere in...
    
  • (ambiguous) to obstruct a road; to close a route: iter obstruere
    
  • (ambiguous) (1) to take a journey, (2) to make, lay down a road (rare): iter facere
    
  • (ambiguous) to travel together: una iter facere
    
  • (ambiguous) to begin a journey (on foot, on horseback, by land): iter ingredi (pedibus, equo, terra)
    
  • (ambiguous) to journey towards a place: iter aliquo dirigere, intendere
    
  • (ambiguous) travel by land, on foot: iter terrestre, pedestre
    
  • (ambiguous) a day's journey: iter unius diei or simply diei
    
  • (ambiguous) an impassable road: iter impeditum
    
  • (ambiguous) to march: iter facere
    
  • (ambiguous) to traverse a route: iter conficere (B. C. 1. 70)
    
  • (ambiguous) to quicken the pace of marching: iter maturare, accelerare
    
  • (ambiguous) to march without interruption: iter continuare (B. C. 3. 11)
    
  • (ambiguous) not to interrupt the march: iter non intermittere
    
  • (ambiguous) to deviate, change the direction: iter flectere, convertere, avertere
    
  • (ambiguous) to force a way, a passage: iter tentare per vim (cf. sect. II. 3)
    
  • (ambiguous) a breach: iter ruina patefactum
    
• iter in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• iter in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎^[3], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

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Turkish

Verb

iter

1. third-person singular present simple indicative positive degree of itmek

See also

• iter itmez