inter

See also: Inter, inter-, and întèr-

English

Alternative forms

• enter (obsolete, pre-Latinised spelling)

Etymology

From Middle English enteren, borrowed from Old French enterrer, enterer, from Vulgar Latin *interrāre (“to put in earth”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɝ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɜː(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)

Verb

inter (third-person singular simple present inters, present participle interring, simple past and past participle interred)

1. To bury in a grave.

   Synonyms: bury, inearth, entomb, inhume

   Antonyms: dig up, disentomb, disinter, exhume, unearth

2. To confine, as in a prison.

Usage notes

• The spellings intering (for interring) and intered (for interred) exist as well, but are much less common.

Derived terms

• reinter

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ters-‎ (0 c, 37 e)

Translations

bury in a grave

• Bulgarian: погребвам (bg) (pogrebvam)
• Catalan: enterrar (ca)
• Cherokee: ᎦᏂᏏᎭ (ganisiha)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 埋葬 (zh) (máizàng), 下葬 (zh) (xiàzàng), 安葬 (zh) (ānzàng)

• Czech: pohřbít (cs) pf
• Dutch: begraven (nl), ter aarde bestellen
• Esperanto: enterigi
• Finnish: haudata (fi)
• French: enterrer (fr)
• Galician: soterrar (gl), enterrar (gl)
• German: begraben (de)
• Icelandic: jarða, greftra, jarðsetja
• Ido: enterigar (io)
• Italian: interrare (it), tumulare (it), inumare (it), seppellire (it)
• Latin: sepeliō, tumulō
• Maori: nehu, tanu
• Portuguese: enterrar (pt)
• Russian: хорони́ть (ru) impf (xoronítʹ), зака́пывать (ru) impf (zakápyvatʹ)
• Spanish: enterrar (es)
• Turkish: defnetmek (tr)
• Ukrainian: ховати (uk) impf (xovaty), хоронити impf (xoronyty), поховати pf (poxovaty), похоронити pf (poxoronyty)

See also

• donatio inter vivos
• inter alia
• inter alios
• inter nos
• inter partes
• inter pocula
• res inter alios acta

 

Anagrams

• -retin, -retin-, Terni, Tiner, inert, n-tier, niter, nitre, riten., terin, trine

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin inter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈinter]
• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -inter
• Hyphenation: in‧ter

Preposition

inter

1. between
2. among

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.tɛʁ/

• Audio

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Noun

inter m (uncountable)

1. (historical) Short for interurbain (“long-distance phone service”).

Further reading

• “inter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto inter, English inter-, French inter-, Italian inter-, Spanish inter-, from Latin inter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈin.ter/, /ˈin.tɛɾ/

Preposition

inter

1. between, among
2. (figuratively) division, exchange, reciprocity

Antonyms

• exter

Derived terms

• inter-

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *ənter, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér (“between”). Cognates include Sanskrit अन्तर् (antár, “between, within, into”), Oscan 𐌀𐌍𐌕𐌄𐌓 (anter, “between”), Old Irish eter (“between”), Albanian ndër (“between, among, amid, throughout”), Old High German untar (“between”) and German unter (“among”).

PIE adverb *h₁entér gave rise to the adjective *h₁énteros (“inner, what is inside”), whence also interior (“interior”) and intrā (“inside, within”).

The change from instrumental/ablative and accusative to accusative only is caused by *-teros used adverbially.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.ter/, [ˈɪn̪t̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.ter/, [ˈin̪t̪er]

Preposition

inter (+ accusative)

1. between, among
2. during, while

Derived terms

• inter-
• interim

Descendants

• English: entrée, entry, enter, entre
• Sardinian: inter
• Sicilian: intra
• Romanian: între
• Old French: entre
  • Middle French: entre
    • French: entre
• French: entrée
• Franco-Provençal: entre
• Old Occitan: entre
  • Occitan: entre
• West Iberian
  • Extremaduran: entri
  • Aragonese: entre
  • Asturian: ente
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: entre, antre, ontre
    • Fala: entre
    • Galician: entre
    • Portuguese: entre
  • Old Spanish: entre
    • Spanish: entre
    • Ladino: entre

References

• “inter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “inter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• inter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be situate to the north-west: spectare inter occasum solis et septentriones
    
  • to carry some one away in one's arms: inter manus auferre aliquem
    
  • it is a recognised fact: inter omnes constat
    
  • to take common counsel: consilia inter se communicare
    
  • to be closely connected with each other: conexum et aptum esse inter se
    
  • systematic succession, concatenation: continuatio seriesque rerum, ut alia ex alia nexa et omnes inter se aptae colligataeque sint (N. D. 1. 4. 9)
    
  • we have agreed on this point: hoc convēnit inter nos
    
  • to be mutually contradictory: inter se pugnare or repugnare
    
  • to be considered the foremost orator: primum or principem inter oratores locum obtinere
    
  • the connection: sententiae inter se nexae
    
  • the connection of thought: ratio, qua sententiae inter se excipiunt.
    
  • to be in correspondence with..: litteras inter se dare et accipere
    
  • to hover between hope and fear: inter spem metumque suspensum animi esse
    
  • we are united by many mutual obligations: multa et magna inter nos officia intercedunt (Fam. 13. 65)
    
  • whilst drinking; at table: inter pocula
    
  • during dinner; at table: inter cenam, inter epulas
    
  • we have known each other well for several years: vetus usus inter nos intercedit
    
  • to exchange greetings: inter se consalutare (De Or. 2. 3. 13)
    
  • to shake hands with a person: dextram iungere cum aliquo, dextras inter se iungere
    
  • to transact, settle a matter with some one: transigere aliquid (de aliqua re) cum aliquo or inter se
    
  • to form a conspiracy: coniurare (inter se) de c. Gerund. or ut...
    
  • (the magistrates) arrange among themselves the administration of the provinces, the official spheres of duty: provincias inter se comparant
    
  • to accuse a person of assassination: accusare aliquem inter sicarios (Rosc. Am. 32. 90)
    
• inter in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “inter”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 324

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• intre

Etymology

From Latin inter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inter/

Preposition

inter

1. between, among

   Synonym: intra

Yagara

Pronoun

inter

1. Alternative form of nginda.

References

• State Library of Queensland, 2019 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES ‘WORD OF THE WEEK’: WEEK FIVE., 29 January 2019.