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iter.

THE SHORT MEANING

A journey, route, or passage.

Movement

4 characters2 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈɪ.tɛr]Classical-Latin[ˈiː.ter]

  1. a route

    declension-3 · neuter

  2. a route a journey, trip

    declension-3 · neuter

  3. a route a march

    declension-3 · neuter

  4. a route a course

    declension-3 · neuter

  5. a route a path; a road

    declension-3 · neuter
    Doceās iter et sacra ōstia pandās.

  6. a route a court circuit

    Medieval-Latin · declension-3 · neuter

  7. a passage

    Medieval-Latin · declension-3 · neuter
Where this word comes from

From Proto-Italic *eitər, *eitor, conflation of an r/n-stem (where both stems are conflated, thus gen. itineris from inherited *itinis and analogical *iteris; compare iecur and femur), from Proto-Indo-European reconstructed as *h₁éy-tr̥ ~ *h₁i-tén-, from *h₁ey- (whence eō). Cognate with Tocharian A ytārye (“path, road”), Avestan 𐬌𐬚𐬥𐬀 (iθna) in 𐬞𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌-𐬌𐬚𐬥𐬀- (paⁱri-iθna-, “(end of) lifetime”).

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