interminate

English

Etymology 1

From in- +‎ terminate.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɜː(ɹ)mɪnət/

Adjective

interminate (comparative more interminate, superlative most interminate)

1. Without end or limit; boundless, infinite, interminable.

   Synonym: interminated

   • 1614–1615, Homer, “The Seventh Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC, page 165, lines 395–397:

     Within a thicket I reposed; when round / I ruffled up fall'n leaves in heap; and found, / Let fall from heaven, a sleep interminate.

     The spelling has been modernized.

Translations

interminable — see interminable

Etymology 2

From Latin interminatus, past participle of interminari.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɜː(ɹ)mɪneɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Verb

interminate (third-person singular simple present interminates, present participle interminating, simple past and past participle interminated)

1. (obsolete) To menace; to threaten.
   • a. 1656, Bishop Joseph Hall, The Mourner in Sion:

     doleful accents of interminated judgments

Related terms

• minatory

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “interminate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Italian

Adjective

interminate

1. feminine plural of interminato

Latin

Participle

intermināte

1. vocative masculine singular of interminātus