iter
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin iter (“passage”).
Noun
iter (plural iters)
- (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.
- 1916, Mayo Clinic, Collected Papers of the Mayo Clinic and the Mayo Foundation (page 869)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin iter (“route”).
Noun
iter m (uncountable)
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
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Conflation of an r/n-stem (where both stems are conflated, thus gen. itineris from inherited *itinis and analogic *iteris; compare iecur and fēmur), from Proto-Indo-European reconstructed as *h₁éy-tr̥ ~ *h₁i-tén-, from *h₁ey- (whence eō). Cognate with Hittite [script needed] (itar).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈi.ter/, [ˈɪt̪ɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈi.ter/, [ˈiːt̪er]
Audio (classical): (file)
Noun
iter n (genitive itineris); third declension
- A route, whether
- (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
Descendants
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[1], 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
- to finish a very long journey: longum itineris spatium emetiri
- “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)[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Turkish
Verb
iter
- third-person singular present simple indicative positive degree of itmek
See also
- English terms borrowed from Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
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- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Anatomy
- Italian terms borrowed from Latin
- Italian terms derived from Latin
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- Italian uncountable nouns
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- Latin 2-syllable words
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- Latin nouns
- Latin third declension nouns
- Latin neuter nouns in the third declension
- Latin neuter nouns
- Medieval Latin
- la:Law
- la:Medicine
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
- Turkish non-lemma forms
- Turkish verb forms