interim
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin interim (“meanwhile”).
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editinterim (not comparable)
- Transitional.
- Iraq's government is interim.
- 1960 June, “Diesel locomotive operation on the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 374:
- In a period of transition from steam to diesel, many of the schemes are inevitably of an interim nature and only on full dieselisation will the final pattern be determined and full benefit derived.
- Temporary.
- Synonyms: provisional, (UK) caretaker
- You are interim manager until he returns from hospital.
- 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- Drogba's goal early in the second half - his fourth in this Wembley showpiece - proved decisive as the remarkable turnaround in Chelsea's fortunes under interim manager Roberto di Matteo was rewarded with silverware.
Translations
edittransitional
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temporary
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Noun
editinterim (plural interims)
- A transitional or temporary period between other events.
- Synonyms: between-time; see also Thesaurus:interim
- His car is in the shop, but they gave him a rental to drive in the interim.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editTranslations
edita transitional or temporary period between other events
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Anagrams
editLatin
editEtymology
editFrom inter + im, archaic adverb from the stem of the pronoun is (“that, this”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈin.te.rim/, [ˈɪn̪t̪ɛrɪ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈin.te.rim/, [ˈin̪t̪erim]
Adverb
editinterim (not comparable)
- meanwhile, in the meantime
- (post-Augustan) for a while
- (post-Augustan) sometimes
- Synonyms: interdum, nōnnumquam, aliquandō
Synonyms
editDerived terms
editDescendants
edit- Asturian: entrín, intre
- Sardinian: interi, interis (adverbial -s)
- → English: interim
- → Galician: intre (semi-learned)
- → German: Interim
- → Spanish: interín
References
edit- “interim”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “interim”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- interim in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- interim in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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