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English

Etymology

From Latin interiectus, perfect passive participle of interici? (“place between”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n.t??d??kt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?n.t??d??kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Verb

interject (third-person singular simple present interjects, present participle interjecting, simple past and past participle interjected)

1. (transitive) To insert something between other things.
2. (transitive) To say as an interruption or aside.
   • 1791, James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, London: Charles Dilly, Volume I, pp. 474-475,^[1]

     He roared with prodigious violence against George the Second. When he ceased, Moody interjected, in an Irish tone, and with a comick look, “Ah! poor George the Second.”

   • 1848, Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Chapter 24,^[2]

     ‘Please, sir, Richard says one of the horses has got a very bad cold, and he thinks, sir, if you could make it convenient to go the day after to-morrow, instead of to-morrow, he could physic it to-day, so as—’

     ‘Confound his impudence!’ interjected the master.

   • 1934, Olaf Stapledon, “East is West” in Sam Moskowitz (ed.), Far Future Calling: Uncollected Science Fiction and Fantasies of Olaf Stapledon, 1979,^[3]

     As I listened I interjected an occasional sentence of Japanese translation for our guests.

   • 2000, Julian Barnes, “The Hardest Test: Drugs and the Tour de France” in The New Yorker, 21 August, 2000,^[4]

     Virenque, in a panicky mishearing, replied, “Me a dealer? No, I am not a dealer.” […] Whereupon Virenque’s lawyer interjected, “No, Richard, the judge said leader. It’s not an offense to be a leader.”

3. (intransitive) To interpose oneself; to intervene.

Synonyms

• (to insert between other things): insert
• (to interpose oneself): interpose, intervene

Related terms

• interjection

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French interjection (13th century), from Latin interiecti?nem, accusative singular of interiecti? (“throwing or placing between; interjection”), perfect passive participle of interici? (“throw or place between”), from inter (“between”) + iaci? (“throw”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n.t??d??k.??n/
• (US) enPR: ?n't?r.j?k?sh?n, IPA^(key): /??n.t??d??k.??n/
• Rhymes: -?k??n

Noun

interjection (plural interjections)

2. (grammar) An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.

   • Some evidence confirming our suspicions that topicalised and dislocated constituents occupy different sentence positions comes from Greenberg (1984). He notes that in colloquial speech the interjection man can occur after dislocated constituents, but not after topicalised constituents: cf.
     (21) (a)      Bill, man, I really hate him (dislocated NP)
     (21) (b)    ^?Bill, man, I really hate (topicalised NP)

3. An interruption; something interjected

Synonyms

• (grammar): exclamation
• (interruption): insertion, interpolation, intercalation

Related terms

• interject
• interjectional

Translations

See also

• vocative
• interjection on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Old French interjection, borrowed from Latin interiecti?, interiecti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.t??.??k.sj??/

Noun

interjection f (plural interjections)

1. (grammar) interjection

Further reading

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

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin interiecti?, interiecti?nem.

Noun

interjection f (oblique plural interjections, nominative singular interjection, nominative plural interjections)

1. exclamation

Descendants

• ? English: interjection
• French: interjection