Meanings
inter1
present singular third person inters · participle present interring · participle past interred · past interred · alternative enter
- To bury in a grave.
Her remains were interred in a St. Peter’s Cemetery in Provincetown, identified solely by an inscription on a small gravestone that said, “Unidentified Female Body Found at Race Point Dunes July 26, 1974.”
2026 September 3, Shreya Lele, “The “Lady of the Dunes” Was Found Murdered in 1974. Nearly 50 Years Later, She Got Her Name Back”, in Skip Boring, archived from the original on 03 Sep 20261 more example
The tomb was discovered on Fenghuangshan (Phoenix Hill) in Chinancheng, Chiangling county, in China’s central Hupeh province. An inscription on a bamboo tablet found in it shows that the corpse was interred in the fifth moon of the 13th year of the reign of Emperor Wen, that is, in 167 B.C.
1975 October, “Newly-Found Han Tomb Relics and Male Corpse”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXIV, number 10, Peking, →OCLC, page 40, column 1Synonyms: bury, inearth, entomb, inhume · Antonyms: dig up, disentomb, disinter, exhume, unearth
- To confine, as in a prison.
Inter2
- Denotes many association football teams bearing 'Inter' in their names, notably:
- by ellipsisInter Milan.
- by ellipsisInter Miami.
- by ellipsisInter Leipzig.
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Origin
inter · verb
- Vulgar Latin*interrāre“to put in earth”
- Old Frenchenterrer
- Middle Englishenteren
- Englishinter
From Middle English enteren, borrowed from Old French enterrer, enterer, from Vulgar Latin *interrāre (“to put in earth”).
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- Italian, Spanish, and GermanInter
- EnglishInter
Borrowed from Italian, Spanish, and German Inter. Also seen as a clipping of international.
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Arabic يَقْبِر
- يَقْبِر (yaqbir)bury in a grave
Bulgarian погребвам
- погребвам (pogrebvam)bury in a grave
Catalan enterrar
- enterrarbury in a grave
Chinese Mandarin 埋葬, 下葬
- 埋葬 (máizàng)bury in a grave
- 下葬 (xiàzàng)bury in a grave
- 安葬 (ānzàng)bury in a grave
Czech pohřbít
- pohřbítbury in a grave
Dutch begraven, ter aarde bestellen
- begravenbury in a grave
- ter aarde bestellenbury in a grave
Esperanto enterigi
- enterigibury in a grave
Finnish haudata
- haudatabury in a grave
French enterrer
- enterrerbury in a grave
German begraben
- begrabenbury in a grave
Icelandic jarða, greftra
- jarðabury in a grave
- greftrabury in a grave
- jarðsetjabury in a grave
Italian interrare, tumulare
- interrarebury in a grave
- tumularebury in a grave
- inumarebury in a grave
- seppellirebury in a grave
Latin sepeliō, tumulō
- sepeliōbury in a grave
- tumulōbury in a grave
Māori nehu, tanu
- nehubury in a grave
- tanubury in a grave
Portuguese enterrar
- enterrarbury in a grave
Russian хорони́ть, зака́пывать
- хорони́ть (xoronítʹ)bury in a grave
- зака́пывать (zakápyvatʹ)bury in a grave
Spanish enterrar, internar
- enterrarbury in a grave
- internarconfine, as in a prison.
Turkish gömmek, defnetmek
- gömmekbury in a grave
- defnetmekbury in a grave
Ukrainian ховати, хоронити
- ховати (xovaty)bury in a grave
- хоронити (xoronyty)bury in a grave
- поховати (poxovaty)bury in a grave
- похоронити (poxoronyty)bury in a grave
Vietnamese chôn cất, an táng
- chôn cấtbury in a grave
- an tángbury in a grave
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Cite this entry
inter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inter
“inter.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inter. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “inter,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inter.
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