See also: Later and låter

English edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

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

Adverb edit

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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Adjective edit

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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later

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

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Dutch edit

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later

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

Inflection edit

Inflection 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

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later

  1. later
  2. in the future

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later

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

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Latin edit

Etymology edit

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (flat), or from *stelh₃- (broad) (in which case latus would be its neuter form).

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Noun edit

later m (genitive lateris); third declension

  1. brick, tile

Declension edit

Third-declension noun.

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

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References edit

  • 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

Mauritian Creole edit

Etymology edit

From French terre.

Noun edit

later

  1. land, earth, soil

Norwegian Bokmål edit

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later

  1. present of late

Old Swedish edit

Etymology 1 edit

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

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later

  1. lazy, sluggish
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  • Swedish: lat

Etymology 2 edit

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later

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

Seychellois Creole edit

Etymology edit

From French terre.

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later

  1. land, earth, soil

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later

  1. indefinite plural of lat

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