different between interior vs middle

English

Alternative forms

• interiour (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin interior (“inner, interior”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?t??i?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?t???i??/
• Rhymes: -???i?(?)

Adjective

interior (not comparable)

1. Within any limits, enclosure, or substance; inside; internal; inner.

2. Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland.

Antonyms

• exterior

Derived terms

• interior decoration
• interior design
• interior designer

Translations

Noun

interior (plural interiors)

1. The inside of a building, container, cavern, or other enclosed structure.

2. The inside regions of a country, distanced from the borders or coasts.

3. (mathematics, topology) The set of all interior points of a set.

Antonyms

• exterior

Translations

Anagrams

• tire iron

Asturian

Noun

interior m (plural interiores)

1. interior (the inside of an enclosed structure)

Catalan

Adjective

interior (feminine interiora, masculine plural interiors, feminine plural interiores)

1. interior, inner, internal

Noun

interior m (plural interiors)

1. interior, inside

Galician

Etymology

From Latin interior.

Adjective

interior m or f (plural interiores)

1. inner, interior

Noun

interior m (plural interiores)

1. interior

Antonyms

• exterior

Latin

Etymology

From the earlier *interus (whence also intr?), from the Proto-Indo-European *h?énteros (“inner, what is inside”). Cognates include the Sanskrit ????? (ántara, “interior”) and the Ancient Greek ??????? (énteron, “intestine, bowel”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /in?te.ri.or/, [?n??t???i?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in?te.ri.or/, [in??t????i?r]

Adjective

interior (neuter interius, positive inter); third declension

1. inner, interior
2. nearer

Usage notes

Although this adjective is the comparative form of inter, there is no positive form. The word inter is an adverb and preposition, not an adjective.

Declension

Third-declension comparative adjective.

Descendants

References

• interior in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• interior in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• interior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin interior.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?.t?.?i.?o?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?.?te.?i.?o?/, /??.te.??jo?/
• Hyphenation: in?te?ri?or

Adjective

interior (plural interiores, comparable)

1. inner; interior (located in the inside)

Antonyms

• (inner): exterior

Noun

interior m (plural interiores)

1. interior; inside

2. country; countryside; interior (regions outside major cities)

   Synonym: campo

Usage notes

The sense of countryside is very subjective. People from the Brazilian state capitals tend to consider the rest of the state interior, people from smaller cities tend to consider only smaller towns interior, those from small villages tend to consider only places without any collective settlement interior, and so on.

Antonyms

• (inside): exterior
• (countryside): cidade

Romanian

Etymology

From French intérieur

Noun

interior n (plural interiori)

1. interior

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin interior.

Adjective

interior (plural interiores)

1. inner, interior

Noun

interior m (plural interiores)

1. interior
2. (Venezuela, also used in the plural) male underwear, underpants

Antonyms

• exterior

Derived terms

Related terms

• interioridad
• interiorizar
• interno

Further reading

“interior” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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