Internet

See also: internet and İnternet

English

Alternative forms

• internet (see Usage notes below)

Etymology

Coined by the U.S. Defense Department in 1986, shortening of internetwork.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɪntəˌnɛt/
• (US) enPR: ĭnʹtərnĕt', IPA^(key): /ˈɪntɚˌnɛt/, [ˈɪɾ̃ɚˌnɛt]

• Audio (UK)

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Inter‧net
• Rhymes: -ɛt

Proper noun

Internet

1. The specific internet consisting of a global network of computers that communicate using Internet Protocol (IP) and that use Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to identify the best paths to route those communications.
   • 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreword", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xi

     [I]f you think the Internet existed in 1970, I can only guess that the education system has left at least one child behind.

Usage notes

• When referring to the global internet, the proper noun was originally usually capitalised (Internet), reserving internet with a lowercase i for the common noun, referring to any other set of computer networks connected by internetworking; however, increasingly, the proper noun sense also takes a lowercase i. Compare similar examples in how the proper names for the Sun (the sun), the Moon (the moon), the Universe (the universe), and the World (the world) are variably capitalized in English orthography.
• The internet, the World Wide Web (the Web, the web), and cyberspace are often loosely treated as synonymous, but in careful usage, each of those terms has a more precise meaning, overlapping in a semantic field.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:Internet

Related terms

• extranet
• Internet of Things
• intranet
• break the Internet

Translations

specific internet consisting of the global network of computers

• Afrikaans: Internet (af)
• Albanian: internet m
• American Sign Language: Open8@Finger-TipUp-Open8@CenterChesthigh-TipUp Twist-Twist
• Amharic: ኢንተርኔት (ʾintärnet)
• Antillean Creole: entènèt
• Arabic: إِنْتِرْنِت‎ (ar) m (ʔintirnit), شُبَّاكَة‎ m (šubbāka)
• Armenian: ինտերնետ (hy) (internet), (somewhat formal) համացանց (hamacʿancʿ)
• Assamese: ইণ্টাৰনেট (intaronet)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܦܪܵܣܢܵܘܠܵܐ‎ m (prāsnāwlā), ܐܝܼܢܛܲܪܢܹܛ‎ m (īnṭarnēṭ)
• Azerbaijani: internet
• Bashkir: Интернет (İnternet)
• Basque: Internet, Sare
• Belarusian: інтэрнэ́т m (internét)
• Bengali: আন্তর্জাল (bn) (antorjal), ইন্টারনেট (bn) (inṭarneṭ)
• Bulgarian: И́нтернет m (Ínternet), Мре́жата f (Mréžata)
• Burmese: အင်တာနက် (my) (angtanak)
• Catalan: Internet (ca) f, xarxa (ca) f
• Central Dusun: internet
• Cherokee: ᎠᏏᎳᏕᏫᏒᎢ (asiladewisvi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 互聯網／互联网 (wu⁶ lyun⁴ mong⁵), 網際網絡／网际网络 (mong⁵ zai³ mong⁵ lok⁶)

  Mandarin: 互聯網／互联网 (zh) (hùliánwǎng), 網絡／网络 (zh) (wǎngluò) (PRC), 網路／网路 (zh) (wǎnglù) (Taiwan), 因特網／因特网 (zh) (Yīntèwǎng), 網際網路／网际网路 (zh) (wǎngjì wǎnglù) (Taiwan)

• Chukchi: Интернет ((internet))
• Chuvash: тетел (tet̬el), интернет (int̬ernet)
• Cornish: kesrosweyth
• Corsican: Internet f
• Czech: Internet (cs) m
• Danish: internet (da) n
• Dinka: Arekwël
• Dutch: Internet (nl) n
• Emilian: raid däl raid
• Esperanto: Interreto, reto (eo) (short form), interreta (attributive)
• Estonian: internet (et), Internet (et), nett (et), veeb, võrk
• Faroese: Alnetið n, Internet
• Finnish: Internet (fi), netti (fi)
• French: Internet (fr) m
• Galician: Internet f
• Georgian: ინტერნეტი (inṭerneṭi)
• German: Netz (de) n, Internet (de) n

  Central Franconian: Engornät

• Greek: Διαδίκτυο n (Diadíktyo), διαδίκτυο (el) n (diadíktyo), ίντερνετ (el) n (ínternet)
• Guaraní: Ñanduti Guasu, Momarandu Ñanduti
• Gujarati: આંતરજાળ (āntarjāḷ)
• Haitian Creole: entènèt
• Hausa: yanar gizo
• Hebrew: מִרְשֶׁתֶת‎ (he) f (mirśetet), אִינְטֶרְנֶט‎ (he) m (internet)
• Hindi: अंतरजाल (hi) (antarjāl), इन्टरनेट m (inṭarneṭ)
• Hungarian: világháló (hu), Internet (hu)
• Hunsrik: Internet n
• Icelandic: Veraldarvefurinn m, Internet (is) n, netið n
• Ido: Internet (io), Interreto (io), reto (io) (short form)
• Indonesian: Internet
• Interlingua: Internet
• Inuktitut: ᖃᕆᓴᐅᔭᒃᑯᑦ ᑎᑎᕋᖅᓯᒪᔪᑦ (qarisaoyakkot titiraqsimayot)
• Irish: Idirlíon (ga) m
• Italian: Internet (it) f
• Jamaican Creole: Intanet
• Japanese: インターネット (ja) (intānetto), ネット (ja) (netto)
• Kalmyk: сүлҗән (süljän)
• Kannada: ಅಂತರ್ಜಾಲ (kn) (antarjāla)
• Kazakh: интернет (internet)
• Khmer: អ៊ីនធឺណិត (intʰɨɨnet), អន្តរៈបណ្ដាញ (ɑndɑɑbandarnh)
• Korean: 인터넷 (ko) (inteonet) (South Korea); 인터네트 (ko) (inteoneteu) (North Korea), 넷 (ko) (net), (rare) 누리망(網) (nurimang)
• Kyrgyz: интернет (ky) (internet)
• Lao: ອິນເຕີເນັດ (ʼin tœ̄ net)
• Latgalian: škārsteiklys
• Latin: interrete n
• Latvian: internets m, starptīkls
• Lithuanian: internetas m, žiniatinklis
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: draod, internet

  German Low German: Internet n (from English), Internett n, Nett n (short form)

• Macedonian: интернет m (internet), семрежје (mk) m (semrežje)
• Malay: Internet
• Malayalam: ഇന്റർനെറ്റ് (ml) (inṟaṟneṟṟŭ)
• Manx: Eddyr-voggyl
• Maori: ipurangi
• Marathi: महाजाल (mahājāl)
• Mirandese: Anternete
• Mongolian: интернэт (mn) (internet)
• Navajo: Béésh Łichíiʼii Bee Ééhoozinígíí, hiiłos
• Nepali: अन्तरजाल (antarjāl), इन्टरनेट (ne) (inṭarneṭ)
• Norman: Enternette
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: internett (no) n, Internett (no) n, nettet n (short form, with the definite article)

  Nynorsk: internett n, Internett n, nettet n (short form, with the definite article)

• Oriya: ଇଣ୍ଟରନେଟ (iṇṭôrôneṭô)
• Pashto: انټرنېټ‎ m
• Persian: اینترنت‎ (fa) (internet)
• Piedmontese: Ragnà
• Plautdietsch: Internet n
• Polish: Internet (pl) m, międzysieć, Sieć (pl) f (colloquial)
• Portuguese: Internet (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਇੰਟਰਨੈੱਟ (pa) (iṇṭarnaiṭṭa)
• Quechua: T'inkinakusqa llikakuna
• Romagnol: raid däl raid
• Romanian: Internet, net
• Russian: интерне́т (ru) m (intɛrnɛ́t), сеть (ru) (setʹ) (informal)
• Sango: Gbândasango
• Santali: ᱚᱱᱛᱚᱨ ᱡᱟᱞᱟᱢ (ôntôr jalam)
• Scottish Gaelic: eadar-lìon m, Eadar-lìon m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: интернет m

  Roman: internet m

• Silesian: mjyndzynec
• Sinhalese: අන්තර්ජාලය (si) (antarjālaya)
• Slovak: sieť f (informal), Internet m
• Slovene: medmrežje n
• Spanish: internet (es) m or f, red (es) f
• Swahili: intaneti
• Swedish: Internet (sv), nätet (sv), internet (sv) n
• Tagalog: Internet
• Tajik: интернет (tg) (internet)
• Tamil: இணையம் (ta) (iṇaiyam)
• Tatar: пәрәвез (tt) (päräwez), интернет (internet)
• Telugu: ఇంటర్నెట్ (iṇṭarneṭ), అంతర్జాలము (te) (antarjālamu)
• Thai: อินเทอร์เน็ต (th) (in-təə-nèt)
• Tibetan: ཀུག་ཁུག་གུག་ངུག (kug khug gug ngug)
• Tigrinya: ኢንተርነት (ʾintärnät), መርበብ (ti) (märbäb)
• Turkish: İnternet (tr), genel ağ (tr)
• Turkmen: internet
• Udmurt: вотэс (votes)
• Ukrainian: інтерне́т m (internét)
• Urdu: انٹرنیٹ‎ (inṭarneṭ), شبکہ‎ (śabka)
• Uyghur: ئىنتېرنېت‎ (intërnët)
• Uzbek: internet (uz)
• Vietnamese: in-tơ-nét, mạng toàn cầu, liên mạng
• Volapük: bevüresod, vüresod (short form), Bevüresod, Vüresod (short form)
• Võro: ilmavõrk
• Walloon: etrernete (wa)
• Welsh: rhyngrwyd (cy) f
• West Frisian: ynternet
• Yiddish: אינטערנעץ‎ f (internets), אינטערנעט‎ f (internet)
• Zhuang: hulenzvangj, vangjdoxlienz

References

• Internet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• renitent

Afrikaans

Etymology

Borrowed from English Internet.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

Internet (uncountable)

1. the Internet

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from English Internet.

Proper noun

Internet m

1. Internet

Finnish

Alternative forms

• internet

Etymology

Borrowed from English Internet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈint(ː)ernet/, [ˈin̪t̪(ː)e̞rne̞t̪]
• Rhymes: -internet
• Syllabification^(key): in‧ter‧net

Proper noun

Internet

1. (Internet) the Internet

Declension

Inflection of Internet (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		Internet	—
genitive		Internetin	—
partitive		Internetiä	—
illative		Internetiin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Internet	—
accusative	nom.	Internet	—
	gen.	Internetin
genitive		Internetin	—
partitive		Internetiä	—
inessive		Internetissä	—
elative		Internetistä	—
illative		Internetiin	—
adessive		Internetillä	—
ablative		Internetiltä	—
allative		Internetille	—
essive		Internetinä	—
translative		Internetiksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Internetittä	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Internet (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Internetini	Internetimme
2nd person	Internetisi	Internetinne
3rd person	Internetinsä

Synonyms

• netti
• (imprecisely) verkko (“Web”), www
• (colloquially, imprecisely) veppi, weppi, webbi

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English Internet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.nɛt/

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Internet m

1. the Internet

   Synonyms: internet, Net

Usage notes

Generally used without the definite article in French, unlike English; thus "on the Internet" in French is sur Internet.

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English Internet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪntɐnɛt/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

Internet n (strong, genitive Internets or Internet, no plural)

1. internet

Usage notes

• While the genitive Internet is often seen, the more Germanic Internets is more frequently used. For example:

  Der Einfluss des Internets nimmt weiter zu.

  The influence of the internet continues to grow.

Declension

Declension of Internet [sg-only, neuter, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Internet
genitive	eines	des	Internets, Internet
dative	einem	dem	Internet
accusative	ein	das	Internet

Derived terms

• Internet der Dinge

Further reading

• “Internet” in Duden online
• “Internet” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Hunsrik

Etymology

From Portuguese Internet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /intɐˈnet/

Noun

Internet n

1. internet

   Ich hon’s im Internet gesihn.

   I've seen it on the internet.

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Icelandic

Etymology

Borrowed from English Internet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪn̥tɛrˌnɛːt/

Proper noun

Internet n

1. (usually definite) the Internet

   Synonyms: net, alnet, lýðnet

Declension

declension of Internet

n-s	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	Internet	Internetið	Internet	Internetin
accusative	Internet	Internetið	Internet	Internetin
dative	Interneti	Internetinu	Internetum	Internetunum
genitive	Internets	Internetsins	Interneta	Internetanna

See also

• veraldarvefur (“World Wide Web”)

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Internet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈin.ter.net/, /in.terˈnɛt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -internet, -ɛt
• Syllabification: Ìn‧ter‧net, In‧ter‧nèt

Noun

Internet f (invariable)

1. Alternative form of internet

Anagrams

• nitrente, trentine

Plautdietsch

Noun

Internet n

1. Internet

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Internet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈtɛr.nɛt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛrnɛt
• Syllabification: In‧ter‧net

Proper noun

Internet m inan

1. the Internet

Declension

Declension of Internet

	singular
nominative	Internet
genitive	Internetu
dative	Internetowi
accusative	Internet
instrumental	Internetem
locative	Internecie
vocative	Internecie

Derived terms

adjective

• internetowy

 

Further reading

• Internet in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Internet in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• internet

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Internet.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.teʁˈnɛ.t͡ʃi/ [ĩ.teɦˈnɛ.t͡ʃi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.teʁˈnɛ.t͡ʃi/ [ĩ.teɦˈnɛ.t͡ʃi]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ĩ.teɾˈnɛ.t͡ʃi/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ĩ.teʁˈnɛ.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ĩ.teɻˈnɛ.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ĩ.tɛɾˈnɛt/

• Rhymes: -ɛt(ʃ)i

Proper noun

Internet f

1. World Wide Web (an information space on the Internet)

   Synonyms: web, rede, net

2. Internet (specific internet consisting of the global network of computers)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English Internet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /înternet/
• Hyphenation: In‧ter‧net

Proper noun

Ȉnternet m (Cyrillic spelling И̏нтернет)

1. Internet

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English Internet.

Proper noun

Internet n (genitive Internets)

1. the (global) Internet