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later
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?le?t?/
- (US) enPR: l??t?r, IPA(key): /?le?t?/, [?le????]
- Rhymes: -e?t?(?)
Etymology
- Adverb: From Middle English later, latere, from Old English lator, equivalent to late +? -er.
- Adjective: From Middle English later, latere, from Old English lætra, equivalent to late +? -er.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian leeter (“later”), West Frisian letter (“later”), Dutch later (“later”), German Low German later (“later”).
Adverb
later
- comparative form of late: more late
- Afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).
- At some unspecified time in the future.
Synonyms
- (afterward in time): afterwards, hereafter; see also Thesaurus:subsequently
- (at some unspecified time in the future): later on, someday; see also Thesaurus:one day
Antonyms
- earlier
Derived terms
- smell ya later, smell you later
Translations
Adjective
later
- comparative form of late: more late
- Jim was later than John.
- Coming afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).
- The Victorian era is a later period of English history than the Elizabethan era.
- Coming afterward in distance (following an antecedent distance as embedded within an adverbial phrase)
- I felt some leg pain during the first mile of my run and I strained my calf two miles later .
- At some time in the future.
- The meeting was adjourned to a later date.
Antonyms
- earlier
Translations
Interjection
later
- (slang) See you later; goodbye.
- Later, dude.
Translations
Derived terms
Anagrams
- Alert, alert, alter, alter-, altre, artel, ratel, taler, telar
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?la?.t?r/
- Rhymes: -a?t?r
Adjective
later
- Comparative form of laat
- Having to do with or occurring in the future.
Inflection
Antonyms
- eerder
- vroeger
Adverb
later
- later
- in the future
Antonyms
- eerder
Anagrams
- alert, ratel
Latin
Etymology
Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pleth?- (“flat”), or from *stelh?- (“broad”) (in which case latus would be its neuter form).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?la.ter/, [???ät??r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?la.ter/, [?l??t??r]
Noun
later m (genitive lateris); third declension
- brick, tile
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
- later?cius
- laterculus
References
- later in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- later in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- later in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- later in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- later in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag
Mauritian Creole
Etymology
From French terre
Noun
later
- land, earth, soil
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
later
- present of late
Old Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse latr, from Proto-Germanic *lataz.
Adjective
later
- lazy, sluggish
Declension
Descendants
- Swedish: lat
Seychellois Creole
Etymology
From French terre
Noun
later
- land, earth, soil
Swedish
Noun
later
- indefinite plural of lat
Anagrams
- alert, artel, letar, realt
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imminent
English
Etymology
From the present participle of Latin immin?re (“to overhang”), from mine? ("to project, overhang"), related to minae (English menace) and mons (English mount). Compare with eminent.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??m?n?nt/ or /??m?n?nt/
Adjective
imminent (comparative more imminent, superlative most imminent)
- about to happen, occur, or take place very soon, especially of something which won't last long.
Usage notes
- Imminent and eminent are very similar sounds, and are weak rhymes; in dialects with the pin-pen merger, these become homophones. A typo of either word may result in a correction to the wrong word by spellchecking software. Imminent is also sometimes confused with immanent.
- Said of danger, threat and death.
Synonyms
- inevitable, immediate, impending; see also Thesaurus:impending
Derived terms
- imminence
- imminently
Related terms
- eminent
- prominent
Translations
Further reading
- imminent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- imminent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- imminent at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- miniment
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin immin?ns (“projecting, overhanging; threatening, menacing”).
Adjective
imminent (masculine and feminine plural imminents)
- imminent
Derived terms
- imminentment
Related terms
- imminència
Further reading
- “imminent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “imminent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “imminent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “imminent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
From Latin immin?ns.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /i.mi.n??/
Adjective
imminent (feminine singular imminente, masculine plural imminents, feminine plural imminentes)
- imminent
Derived terms
- expérience de mort imminente
- imminemment
Further reading
- “imminent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Verb
imminent
- third-person plural present active indicative of immine?
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