inter
Multiple Entries:inter inter- inter.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
inter /ɪnˈtəː/
▶verb (inters, interring, interred) place (a corpse) in a grave or tomb.
– origin ME: from OFr. enterrer, based on L. in- ‘into’ + terra ‘earth’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
inter-/ˈɪntə(r)/
▶prefix
- 1 between; among: interbreed.
- 2 mutually; reciprocally: interatomic.
– origin from OFr. entre- or L. inter ‘between, among’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
inter.
▶abbreviation intermediate.
'inter' also found in these Oxford entries:
entertain
- entrails
- intelligence
- inter.
- inter-
- inter alia
- inter alios
- inter-allied
- intercede
- intercourse
- interdigitate
- interest
- interior
- interject
- interleukin
- interlingua
- interlocutor
- interloper
- interlude
- intermediate
- intermit
- internecine
- Internet
- internuncial
- interpellate
- Interpol
- interpolate
- interpose
- interregnum
- interrogate
- interrupt
- inter se
- interstadial
- intervene
- inter vivos
- lavabo
- primus inter pares
