inter
verbUS /ɪnˈtɚ/ · AU, UK /ɪnˈtɜː/
Etymology From Middle English enteren, borrowed from Old French enterrer, enterer, from Vulgar Latin *interrāre (“to put in earth”).
1
To bury in a grave.
- 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 1:
2
To confine, as in a prison.
- Related terms
- donatio inter vivos, inter alia, inter alios, inter nos, inter partes, inter pocula, res inter alios acta