intra-
(Latin: within, inside, on the inside)
Borrowed from late Latin intra-; closely related to inter-, "between". The use of intra- is largely a product of modern times, occurring in words of common and technical vocabulary, where once it was generally a term used in science and the academic world.
While some words are borrowings from Medieval and even Late Latin, few if any come from Classical Latin.
intravenous
intravenously
intraverbal
Within a word.
intra vires
Within the powers.
A matter is intra vires when it is within the legal power, scope, or authority of an institution or individual to perform an action. The opposite term is ultra vires.
intra vitam
During life: "The biologists were busy staining tissues intra vitam."
intrinsic
A reference to the real nature of a thing; inherent; essential.
Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "internal organs, entrails, inside":
ent-;
enter-;
fistul-;
incret-;
inter-;
splanchn-;
viscer-.
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