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Latin
Etymology
From inter (“between, among”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
internus (feminine interna, neuter internum, adverb internē); first/second-declension adjective
- (literal) inward, internal
- (figurative) domestic, civil, internal
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Inflection
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “internus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “internus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- internus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the Mediterranean Sea: mare medium or internum