inter-, intero-
(Latin: between; among, mutually, together; on the inside, internal)
Although abstracted from the many compounds in which it entered English, the form inter- was not generally considered a living prefix in English until the 1400s.
During the later period of Middle English many words borrowed in the Old and Middle French forms entre-, enter- began to be consciously respelled with Latin inter-; although vestiges of the older French borrowings are found in entertain and enterprise.
The living prefix inter- is now freely added to almost any element in English to create such formations with the meaning of "between" and "among". The words formed by intra- are closely related to this inter- prefix; in fact, they both apparently came from the same Latin source.
interdependently
interdict
1. An authoritative prohibition; an act of forbidding peremptorily.
2. In the Roman Catholic Curch, an authoritative sentence debarring a particular place or person (especially, the former) from ecclesiastical functions and privileges.
3. To declare authoritatively against the doing of (an action) or the use of (a thing); to forbid, prohibit; to debar or preclude by or as by a command.
4. To restrain (a person) by authority from the doing or use of something; to forbid to do something; to debar or preclude from something.
interdiction
1. The action of forbidding by or as by authority; authoritative or peremptory prohibition.
2. The interruption of supply operations by aerial bombing.
interdictory
1. That which is forbidden usually in a formal or authoritative manner.
2. Pertaining to, or noting, an interdiction or prohibition.
interdigit
1. To interlock, as the fingers of two hands that are joined; to be interwoven; to commingle.
2. To interweave.
interdigital
1. Between the fingers or toes; as, interdigital space.
2. Occurring between the digits.
interdigitary
Foot web; literally, between the digits; especially, as seen with penguins, ducks, geese, etc.
interdigitation
1. To become interlocked like the fingers of folded hands.
2. An interlocking of parts by fingerlike processes.
interdisciplinary, pluridisciplinary
Of or pertaining to two or more disciplines or branches of learning; contributing to or benefiting from two or more disciplines.
interethnic
Intercultural as between different ethnic groups.
interface
Interface
An electronic interconnection of devices; whether hardware or software.
interferant
1. In law, someone who is applying for a patent that conflicts with an earlier one.
2. One of the contestants in interference before the Patent Office in the United States.
interfere
1. To delay, to hinder, or to obstruct the natural or desired course of something: "This weather is going to interfere with our flight plans."
2. To intervene unasked in the affairs of others and often in an impudent or indiscreet manner.
3. To participate in the affairs of others; especially, by offering unwanted or unhelpful advice or by trying to resolve other people's disputes.
4. To obstruct, to block, or to hinder illegally an opponent in a sport.
5. To act together to increase, to decrease, or to cancel out a displacement or an amplitude.
6. To cause electronic interference.
7. Usually with reference to horses, to hit one hoof against the opposite hoof or a leg while walking.
8. Etymology: "to strike against", from Middle French enterferer, "to strike each other"; from entre-, "between" + ferir, "to strike" from Latin ferire, "to knock, to strike".
interfered
1. Involved in a situation when such involvement is not wanted or is not helpful.
2. Entered into, or taken a part in, the concerns of others.
Related "together" units:
com-;
greg-;
struct-.
Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "internal organs, entrails, inside":
ent-;
enter-;
fistul-;
incret-;
intra-;
splanchn-;
viscer-.
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