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inter
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)
- To bury in a grave.
- Synonyms: bury, inearth, entomb, inhume
- Antonyms: dig up, disentomb, disinter, exhume, unearth
- 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
- between
- among
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.te/
Noun
inter m (uncountable)
- (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
- between, among
- (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)
- between, among
- 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
- between, among
- Synonym: intra
Yagara
Pronoun
inter
- Alternative form of nginda.
References
- State Library of Queensland, 2019 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES ‘WORD OF THE WEEK’: WEEK FIVE., 29 January 2019.
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overwhelm
English
Etymology
From Middle English overwhelmen, equivalent to over- +? whelm.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???v????lm/, /???v??w?lm/
- (US) IPA(key): /?o?v????lm/, /?o?v??w?lm/
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /?ov????lm/
- Rhymes: -?lm
Verb
overwhelm (third-person singular simple present overwhelms, present participle overwhelming, simple past and past participle overwhelmed)
- To engulf, surge over and submerge.
- Synonym: swamp
- To overpower, crush.
- In December 1939 the Soviet Union attacked Finland with overwhelming force.
- The sea overwhelmed their enemies.
- To overpower emotionally.
- To cause to surround, to cover.
- 1684, Denis Papin, Instrument to make turpentine penetrate plaster and wood using the airpump
- I lay Turpentine all over the same: then I overwhelm a broader pipe about the first
Derived terms
- overwhelming
Related terms
- whelm
Antonyms
- underwhelm
Translations
Noun
overwhelm (plural overwhelms)
- The state or condition of being overwhelmed.
See also
- too many balls in the air
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