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later

See also: Later and låter

English

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Etymology

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Cognate with Saterland Frisian leeter (“later”), West Frisian letter (“later”), Dutch later (“later”), German Low German later (“later”).

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈleɪtə/
  • (US) enPR: lāʹtər, IPA(key): /ˈleɪtɚ/, [ˈleɪ̯ɾɚ]
    • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

Adverb

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later

  1. comparative form of late: more late
    You came in late yesterday and today you came in even later.
  2. Afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).
    My roommate arrived first. I arrived later.
    I arrived later than my roommate.
  3. At some unspecified time in the future.
    I wanted to do it now, but I’ll have to do it later.

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Antonyms

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  • earlier
  • (antonym(s) of “At some unspecified time in the future”): once

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Adjective

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later

  1. comparative form of late: more late
    Jim was later than John.
  2. Coming afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).
    The Victorian era is a later period of English history than the Elizabethan era.
  3. Coming afterward in distance (following an antecedent distance as embedded within an adverbial phrase)
    I felt some leg pain during the first mile of my run and I strained my calf two miles later.
  4. At some time in the future.
    The meeting was adjourned to a later date.

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Interjection

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later

  1. (slang) See you later; goodbye.
    Later, dude.

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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later

  1. comparative degree of laat
  2. Having to do with or occurring in the future.

Inflection

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Declension of later
uninflected later
inflected latere
comparative —
positive
predicative/adverbial later
indefinite m./f. sing. latere
n. sing. later
plural latere
definite latere
partitive laters

Antonyms

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Adverb

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later

  1. later
  2. in the future

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Interjection

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later

  1. bye, later
    Synonyms: dag, doei, doeg, houdoe, tabee, vaarwel

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Latin

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Etymology

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Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”), or from *stelh₃- (“broad”) (in which case latus (“side, flank”) would be its neuter form).[1]

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Noun

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later m (genitive lateris); third declension

  1. brick, tile

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Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative later laterēs
Genitive lateris laterum
Dative laterī lateribus
Accusative laterem laterēs
Ablative latere lateribus
Vocative later laterēs

Derived terms

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References

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  • “later”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “later”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • later in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “later”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “later”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 329

Mauritian Creole

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Etymology

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From French terre.

Noun

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later

  1. land, earth, soil

Norwegian Bokmål

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Verb

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later

  1. present of late

Old Swedish

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse latr, from Proto-Germanic *lataz.

Adjective

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later

  1. lazy, sluggish
Declension
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Declension of later (strong)
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative later lat lat
accusative latan lata lat
dative latum
latom 		latri
latre 		latu
lato
genitive lats latrar lats
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative latir
later 		latar lat
accusative lata latar lat
dative latum
latom 		latum
latom 		latum
latom
genitive latra
lata 		latra
lata 		latra
lata
Declension of later (weak)
singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative lati
late 		lata lata
accusative lata latu
lato 		lata
dative lata latu
lato 		lata
genitive lata latu
lato 		lata
plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative latu
lato 		latu
lato 		latu
lato
accusative latu
lato 		latu
lato 		latu
lato
dative latu
lato 		latu
lato 		latu
lato
genitive latu
lato 		latu
lato 		latu
lato
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  • Swedish: lat

Etymology 2

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Verb

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later

  1. first/second/third-person singular present active indicative of lata

Seychellois Creole

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Etymology

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From French terre.

Noun

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later

  1. land, earth, soil

Swedish

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Noun

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later

  1. indefinite plural of lat

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