The story
- Latin · derived frominter“between”
- French · derived fromintermède
- English todayintermede
From French intermède, from Latin inter (“between”) + medius (“middle”). Compare Italian intermedio. Doublet of intermezzo.
Words from the same roots
Latininter all →
entertaininterlinguaenter-intervolutionintervolve
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.