different between entire vs cataphract

English

Alternative forms

• intire (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English entere, enter, borrowed from Anglo-Norman entier, from Latin integrum, accusative of integer, from in- (“not”) + tang? (“touch”). Doublet of integer.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?ta??/, /?n?ta??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?ta??/, /?n?ta??/
• Rhymes: -a??(?)

Adjective

entire (not comparable)

1. (sometimes postpositive) Whole; complete.
2. (botany) Having a smooth margin without any indentation.
3. (botany) Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
4. (complex analysis, of a complex function) Complex-differentiable on all of ?.
5. (of a male animal) Not gelded.
6. morally whole; pure; sheer
7. Internal; interior.

Derived terms

• entirety

Related terms

• integrity
• integrate

Translations

Noun

entire (countable and uncountable, plural entires)

1. (now rare) The whole of something; the entirety.
   • 1876, WE Gladstone, Homeric Synchronism:

     In the entire of the Poems we never hear of a merchant ship of the Greeks.

   • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 19:

     ‘Then is the City Magistrate the entire of your family now?’

2. An uncastrated horse; a stallion.
   • 2005, James Meek, The People's Act of Love (Canongate 2006, p. 124)

     He asked why Hijaz was an entire. You know what an entire is, do you not, Anna? A stallion which has not been castrated.

3. (philately) A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted.
4. Porter or stout as delivered from the brewery.

Translations

Anagrams

• entier, in-tree, nerite, triene

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kæt?f?ækt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kæt??f?ækt/, [-??-]
• Hyphenation: ca?ta?phract

Etymology 1

From Latin cataphractes (“suit of armour”), from Ancient Greek ??????????? (kataphrákt?s, “suit of armour”), from ????- (kata-, prefix indicating a great degree or intensity) + ??????? (phraktós, “protected; fenced in”) (from ?????? (phráss?, “to fortify, secure; to fence in”)) + -??? (-t?s, suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being).

Noun

cataphract (plural cataphracts)

1. (military, historical) Defensive armour covering the entire body of a soldier and often the soldier's horse as well, especially the linked mail or scale armour of some eastern nations.
2. (ichthyology, by extension, obsolete) An outer covering of some fish resembling armour or plate.

Derived terms

• cataphracted (adjective)
• cataphractic

Translations

Etymology 2

The adjective is derived from Ancient Greek ??????????? (katáphraktos, “covered, enclosed, shut up; completely suited in armour”), from ???????????? (kataphrássein, “to suit in armour”) (see further at etymology 1) + -??? (-tos, “suffix forming adjectives”).

The noun is derived from Latin cataphractus (“wearing armour, mailed”), from Ancient Greek ??????????? (katáphraktos, “covered, enclosed, shut up; completely suited in armour”); see above.

Adjective

cataphract

1. (nautical, historical) Of a galley such as a trireme: with the upper tier of rowers shielded rather than exposed.

   Antonym: aphract

Translations

Noun

cataphract (plural cataphracts)

1. (military, historical) A soldier (especially a horseman) covered with a cataphract (etymology 1, sense 1).

Translations

See also

• cuirassier

References

Further reading

• cataphract on Wikipedia.Wikipedia