Talk:inter-

French section, inter- etymology
in the Fr etymology of inter- it says "Cognate with the non-borrowed form entre-", but isn't entrepreneur a borrowed form of entre-? 2603:8001:D3F0:87E0:0:0:0:10D0 17:33, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

Uncategorized derived words
So I did a somewhat silly (ambitious?) thing and decided to categorize all of the derived words of inter- by sense. I've been doing this as a way to refine the senses for other prefixes but generally for the other prefixes I've been looking at something like 50-100 derived words rather than over a thousand. After scraping the Category of derived words for inter-, I got 1310 distinct word senses (after removing the synonyms and alternate spellings). Over the course a week I sorted 1274 of them into clusters that made enough sense to me that writing a definition for it felt reasonable, and just updated the entry for inter- accordingly.

I wasn't able to categorize 100% of them - my brain is saturated and eager to move on to other things. So for posterity and/or if anybody wants to finish the task, here is what I had left over by the time I'd identified senses for categorizing 97% of the derived words. There are about 50 outstanding word senses.

The biggest thing in here that I wasn't sure what to do with was all the different senses of interface. Should all the physics/chem/computing senses of that word be categorized as derived from its original sense? Or create a sense just for interface? Similar issue with intermurual. Intersets (talk) 01:58, 22 March 2024 (UTC)


 * inter-be	0	(Buddhism) To be interconnected.
 * interabled	0	Existing between a disabled person and one who is not disabled (of a romantic relationship or the like).
 * interactive	1	(computer science) Responding to the user.
 * interactive	2	A feature (as in a museum) that can be interacted with.
 * interaortocaval	0	(anatomy) Between (or joining) the aorta and the vena cava
 * interarea	1	(zoology) A typically triangular shelf of shell on some brachiopods that serves as a weight-bearing surface to stabilize the valves.
 * interassay	1	The difference in the value of an interassay parameter
 * interaxis	4	(electronics) Pertaining to the perpendicularity (or deviation therefrom) of a set of resolver windings when another set of windings is excited.
 * interbourse	0	(skiing, attributive) A skiing event for financiers.
 * interbrain	0	(anatomy) The diencephalon.
 * interdash	0	(transitive) To intersperse.
 * interdeal	1	(obsolete) To carry on intrigues.
 * interdigitate	0	(transitive) To fold or lock together, as when the fingers of one hand are laced between those of the other.
 * interdigitate	1	(intransitive) To become folded or locked together, like the fingers of a folded hand.
 * interdigitation	0	An interlinking that resembles the fingers of two hands being locked together.
 * interesterification	0	(organic chemistry) The reaction of an ester with an alcohol in order to obtain a different ester.
 * interface	1	(chemistry, physics) A thin layer or boundary between different substances or two phases of a single substance.
 * interface	2	(computing) The point of interconnection between systems or subsystems.
 * interface	3	(computing) The connection between a user and a machine.
 * interface	4	(computing, object-oriented programming) The connection between parts of software; also the public or published sections of an object or module,
 * interface	5	(computing, object-oriented programming) In object-oriented programming, a piece of code defining a set of operations that other code must implement.
 * interface	6	(object-oriented programming) In some languages, a block of code declaring the interface (point of interconnection) between a class and code that interacts with it.
 * interface	7	(biochemistry) The internal surface of a coiled protein (compare exoface).
 * interface	8	(transitive) To construct an interface for.
 * interface	9	(transitive, intransitive) To connect through an interface.
 * interface	10	(intransitive) To serve as an interface.
 * interfertile	0	Capable of interbreeding
 * interfix	1	(linguistic morphology) A transfix.
 * interfix	2	(computing, information retrieval, dated) An association link, a device to group multiple words or concepts.
 * interframe	0	(signal processing) A video frame which is compressed to express only the change from a reference frame.
 * interframe	1	A type of bolster for a folding knife.
 * interfruitful	0	Able to cross-pollinate.
 * interhyal	0	(anatomy) Of or pertaining to a segment sometimes present at the proximal end of the hyoid arch.
 * interjugary	0	(botany) Being or relating to glands occurring along the leaf rachis between the pinnae (occurring below the single, and often slightly larger, gland at or just below the insertion of the pinnae) in pinnate leaves.
 * interleukin	0	(biochemistry) Any of a group of cytokine proteins important in the regulation of lymphocyte function.
 * interloper	1	(obsolete) An unlicensed or illegitimate trader.
 * intermaxilla	0	(anatomy) premaxilla
 * intermine	0	(obsolete) To intersect or penetrate with minerals.
 * intermural	3	In house; internal to an organization.
 * intermural	4	Involving competition between institutions, especially sports competitions.
 * intermural	6	A (usually sport) competition between teams from separate organizations.
 * intermural	7	A competition between teams from within the same organization.
 * intermutual	0	(obsolete) mutual
 * international	4	(sports, chiefly Britain, Ireland, Australia) Someone who has represented their country in a particular sport.
 * internetwork	0	A network of networks.
 * interoperative	0	During a surgical operation.
 * interoperculum	0	(anatomy) The posteroinferior opercular bone in fishes.
 * interpenetrative	1	Merging together into a continuous whole.
 * interplay	1	(intransitive) To interact.
 * intersector	0	(geometry) That which intersects.
 * interspiration	0	(obsolete) spiritual inspiration at separate times, or at intervals

Intersets (talk) 01:58, 22 March 2024 (UTC)