different between interim vs middle

English

Etymology

From Latin interim (“meanwhile”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nt???m/
• Hyphenation: in?ter?im

Adjective

interim (not comparable)

1. Transitional.
2. Temporary.

   Synonyms: provisional, (UK) caretaker

Translations

Noun

interim (plural interims)

1. A transitional or temporary period between other events.

   Synonyms: between-time; see also Thesaurus:interim

Translations

Anagrams

• Termini, mintier, termini

Latin

Etymology

From inter + im, archaic adverb from the stem of the pronoun is (“that, this”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?in.te.rim/, [??n?t??????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?in.te.rim/, [?in?t???im]

Adverb

interim (not comparable)

1. meanwhile, in the meantime

Descendants

• ? Angevin: adementiers, ademintiers
• Asturian: entrín, intre, demientres (dum interim), mientres (dum interim)
• ? Catalan: mentre (< dum interim)
• ? English: interim
• ? Galician: intre (semi-learned)
• ? German: Interim
• ? Italian: mentre (< dum interim)
• ? Old French: dementre, mentre, dementieres, adementiers (< dum interim)
• ? Old Portuguese: domentres, dementres, mentres (< dum interim)
  • Galician: mentres
  • Portuguese: mentes
• ? Spanish: mientras (< dum interim)

References

• interim in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• interim in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• interim in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• interim in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Alternative forms

• myddle (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English middel, from Old English middel, middle (“middle, centre, waist”), from Proto-Germanic *midl?, *midil?, *medal? (“middle”), a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *midj? (“middle, midst”) (compare *midjaz (“mid, middle”, adjective)), from Proto-Indo-European *méd?yos (“between, in the middle, middle”). Cognate with West Frisian middel, Dutch middel, German mittel (“middle”, adjective), German Mittel (“middle, means”, noun), Danish middel (“means, agent, medicine”). Related also to Swedish medel (“means, medium”), Icelandic meðal (“means, medicine”). See also mid.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?d?l/, [?m?.???]
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?d?l/, [?m?.d??], [?m?.d?]
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?m?d?l/, [?m??.d??], [?m??.d?], [?m??.?-]
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?m?d?l/, [?m?.d?(?)], [?m?.?-]
• Rhymes: -?d?l

Noun

middle (plural middles)

1. A centre, midpoint.

2. The part between the beginning and the end.

3. (cricket) The middle stump.
4. The central part of a human body; the waist.
   • Fasting In A Fast World

     If I have a diet plan and stick to it, it is easy for me to have control over my middle.

5. (grammar) The middle voice.

Synonyms

• (centre): centre, center, midpoint; see also Thesaurus:midpoint
• (part between the beginning and the end): centre, center, midst

Translations

Adjective

middle (not comparable)

1. Located in the middle; in between.

   the middle point

   middle name, Middle English, Middle Ages

2. Central.
3. (grammar) Pertaining to the middle voice.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:intermediate

Translations

Derived terms

Related terms

• mid-
• middle- (in compounds; not a prefix)
• middling

Verb

middle (third-person singular simple present middles, present participle middling, simple past and past participle middled)

1. (obsolete) To take a middle view of. [17th–18th c.]
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 27:

     And now, to middle the matter between both, it is pity, that the man they favour has not that sort of merit which a person of a mind so delicate as that of Miss Harlowe might reasonably expect in a husband.

2. (obsolete, nautical, transitive) To double (a rope) into two equal portions; to fold in the middle. [19th c.]

Middle English

Adjective

middle

1. inflection of middel:
   1. weak singular
   2. strong/weak plural