different between inter vs intermittent

English

Alternative forms

• enter (obsolete, pre-Latinised spelling)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n?t??(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(r)
• (US) IPA^(key): /?n?t?/

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

Translations

Anagrams

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

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin inter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?inter/
• Hyphenation: in?ter
• Rhymes: -inter
• Audio:

Preposition

inter

1. between
2. among

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.te/

Noun

inter m (uncountable)

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

Ido

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?in.ter/, /?in.t??/

Preposition

inter

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

Antonyms

• exter

Derived terms

• inter-

Latin

Etymology

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

PIE adverb *h?entér gave rise to the adjective *h?énteros (“inner, what is inside”), whence also interior (“interior”) and intr? (“inside, within”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?in.ter/, [??n?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?in.ter/, [?in?t??r]

Preposition

inter (+ accusative)

1. between, among
2. during, while

Derived terms

• inter-
• interim

Descendants

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.
• inter in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

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.

English

Etymology

From Middle French intermittent, from Latin intermittens (“sending between”), from prefix inter- (“among, on”) + mittens (“sending”), from mittere (“to send”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??nt??m?tn?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??nt??m?tn?t/

Adjective

intermittent (comparative more intermittent, superlative most intermittent)

1. Stopping and starting, occuring, or presenting at intervals; coming after a particular time span.

   Synonyms: periodic, periodical, patchy, spasmodic; see also Thesaurus:discontinuous

   Antonyms: steady, constant, continual

   • 1564, Philip Moore, The Hope of Health, London, Chapter 13,^[1]

     Also bloudletting is good in feuers, whether they be continual or intermittent […]

   • 1698, Robert South, Twelve Sermons upon Several Subjects and Occasions, London: Thomas Bennet, Volume 3, p. 511,^[2]

     […] the Gift of Prophecy […] was in the mind not as an Inhabitant, but as a Guest; that is, by intermittent Returns and Ecstasies, by Occasional Raptures and Revelations; as is clear from what we read of the Prophets in the Old Testament.

   • 1792, Richard Cumberland, Calvary: or The Death of Christ, London: C. Dilly, Book 5, lines 364-366, p. 164,^[3]

     […] Pale through night’s curtain gleam’d

     By fits the lunar intermittent ray,

     That quiv’ring serv’d to light his lonely steps
2. (specifically, geology, of a body of water) Existing only for certain seasons; that is, being dry for part of the year.

Derived terms

Related terms

• inter
• inter-
• intermit
• intermittence
• intermittency

Translations

Noun

intermittent (plural intermittents)

1. (medicine, dated) An intermittent fever or disease.
   • 1592, Nicholas Gyer, The English Phlebotomy: or, Method and Way of Healing by Letting of Blood, London: Andrew Mansell, Chapter 16, p. 172,^[5]

     Feuers, and especially those that are called intermittents, discontinuing agues, euen naturally at the beginning and their first inuasion, cause vomits: and at the declining, sweats.

   • 1733, John Arbuthnot, An Essay concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies, London: J. Tonson, Chapter 6, p. 144,^[6]

     The Bark, which had been ineffectual in the Intermittents of the former Year, was successful in this.

   • 1832, Robley Dunglison, Human Physiology, Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, Volume 2, “Circulation,” p. 146,^[7]

     In disease, the agency of this system of vessels is an object of attentive study with the pathologist. To its influence in inflammation, we have already alluded; but it is no less exemplified in the more general diseases of the frame, as in the cold, hot, and sweating stages of an intermittent.

French

Etymology

From Latin intermitt?ns.

Adjective

intermittent (feminine singular intermittente, masculine plural intermittents, feminine plural intermittentes)

1. Intermittent.

Derived terms

• intermittemment

Further reading

• “intermittent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

intermittent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of intermitt?