different between onto vs into

English

Alternative forms

• on to (UK, Ireland and Commonwealth countries including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa etc)

Etymology

From on +? to, after into. Compare Saterland Frisian antou (“up to”).

Pronunciation

• (stressed)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /??n.tu?/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /??n.tu/
• (unstressed, before consonants) IPA^(key): /??n.t?/
• (unstressed, before vowels) IPA^(key): /??n.t?/
• Hyphenation: on?to

Preposition

onto

1. Upon; on top of.

2. (informal) Aware of.

3. (mathematics) Being an onto function with a codomain of (see below).

Translations

Adjective

onto (not comparable)

1. (mathematics, of a function) Assuming each of the values in its codomain; having its range equal to its codomain.

   Considered as a function on the real numbers, the exponential function is not onto.

Synonyms

• (mathematics): surjective

Translations

See also

• (mathematics): one-to-one, injective, bijective

See also

• unto

Anagrams

• Toon, noot, noto-, oont, tono-, toon

English

Etymology

From Middle English in-to, from Old English int?, equivalent to in +? to. Cognate with Scots intae.

Pronunciation

• (stressed)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /??n.tu?/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /??n.tu/
• (unstressed, before consonants) IPA^(key): /??n.t?/
• (unstressed, before vowels) IPA^(key): /??n.t?/
• Hyphenation: in?to

Preposition

into

1. To or towards the inside of.

2. To or towards the region of.

3. Against, especially with force or violence.

4. Indicates transition into another form or substance.
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     His English is still in its beginning stages, like my Creole, but he was able to translate some Creole songs that he's written into English—not the best English, but English nonetheless.

5. After the start of.

6. (colloquial) Interested in or attracted to.

7. (Britain, archaic, India, mathematics) Expressing the operation of multiplication.

8. (mathematics) Expressing the operation of division, with the denominator given first. Usually with "goes".

9. Investigating the subject (of).

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

• Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Bounded landmarks", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8

Anagrams

• -tion, -toin, Toni, noit, oint, on it

Finnish

Etymology

From dialectal inta, from Proto-Finnic *inta (compare Estonian ind, Livonian ind), probably borrowed from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (compare Old Swedish inna (“achievement, accomplishment”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?into/, [?in?t?o?]
• Rhymes: -into
• Syllabification: in?to

Noun

into

1. eagerness, enthusiasm

   odottaa innolla (+ partitive) = to look forward to

2. passion, fervour/fervor, ardour/ardor
3. zeal, fanaticism

Declension

Synonyms

• (eagerness, enthusiasm): innokkuus, innostus
• (passion, fervo(u)r, ardo(u)r): intohimo
• (zeal, fanaticism): kiihko

Derived terms

Compounds

• intohimo
• intomieli

Anagrams

• Toni, otin, toin

Ligurian

Etymology

Contraction of inte (“in”) + o m sg (“the”, definite article).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?tu/

Contraction

into

1. in the (+ a masculine name in the singular)

Synonyms

• ne-o

Coordinate terms

• inta
• inte
• inti

Middle English

Preposition

into

1. Alternative spelling of in-to

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin intus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ind??/

Preposition

into

1. in (surrounded by)

Old English

Etymology

in +? t?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in?to?/

Preposition

int?

1. into

Descendants

• Middle English: in-to, into, inne to, jn to, jne to, inte
  • English: into
  • Scots: intae

Southern Ndebele

Noun

întó 9 (plural ízintó 10)

1. thing

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Xhosa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [í??tó]

Noun

íntó 9 (plural ízintó 10)

1. thing

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Yemsa

Noun

into

1. mother

References

• David Appleyard, Beja as a Cushitic language, in Egyptian and Semito-Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) Studies: In Memoriam W. Vycichl (Yem into "mother")

Zulu

Etymology

From in- +? -tha (“to name, to choose”) +? -o. Compare with a similar derivation in Swahili jambo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /î?ntó/

Noun

întó 9 (plural ízintó 10)

1. thing

Inflection

References

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972) , “-tho”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, ?ISBN: “-tho (2-6.3)”