Examples of inter in a Sentence
Kerry Breen, CBS News, 12 Sep. 2023
If the zoo moves forward with plans in the proposal, an archeologist from the University of Alabama will excavate the site and collect any remains and items interred there.
—Joseph D. Bryant | Jbryant@al.com, al, 2 Aug. 2023
The anonymous body interred here was brought in November 1920 from a battlefield in France.
—Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023
More than 4,700 indigent people were interred at the old cemetery between 1888 and about 1909.
—Joseph D. Bryant | Jbryant@al.com, al, 21 Aug. 2023
Also, the remains were interred with few indicators of differing social class or wealth.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Aug. 2023
By interring the theory, Chief Justice Roberts executed a transparent volte-face.
—Simon Lazarus, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2023
These groups consisted of mothers, children, and siblings — males were interred separately under the Moravian church burial practices used in the area.
—Usha Lee McFarling, STAT, 3 Aug. 2023
In 1948, the remains were declared unidentifiable and interred at what would be known as the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery.
—Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2023
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Word History
Verb
Middle English enteren, from Anglo-French enterrer, from Vulgar Latin *interrare, from in- + Latin terra earth — more at terrace entry 1
Prefix
borrowed from Latin, prefixal use of inter "among, between," going back to Indo-European *h1en-ter- (whence also Old Irish eter, iter "between," Old Welsh ithr, Breton etre, entre, all from Celtic *enter; Sanskrit antár "within," Avestan aṇtarə); from a nominal derivative *h1enter-o- "part located inside," Old Norse iðr, innr, indr "entrails," iðrar (feminine plural) "bowels," Greek éntera (neuter plural) "intestines," Armenian ənderkʼ (plural), Sanskrit ántara- "located inside," Avestan antara-
Note: Indo-European *h1en-ter- is formed from the locational particle *h1en- "in" (see in entry 1) and the suffix of opposition and contrast -ter-. A zero-grade derivative *h1n̥-tér- is reflected in Old Saxon undar "between," Old High German untar, though in Germanic this etymon appears to have merged completely with outcomes of *(H)n̥-dher- "below, under" (see under entry 1).
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“Inter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inter. Accessed 26 Sep. 2023.
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2 of 2 prefixVerb
from the Latin phrase in terra "in the earth"
Prefix
derived from Latin inter "between, among"
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