internus

Latin

Etymology

From inter (“between, among”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪnˈtɛr.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [inˈtɛr.nus]

Adjective

internus (feminine interna, neuter internum, adverb internē); first/second-declension adjective

1. (literal) inward, internal
2. (figurative) domestic, civil, internal

Inflection

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	internus	interna	internum		internī	internae	interna
genitive	internī	internae	internī		internōrum	internārum	internōrum
dative	internō	internae	internō		internīs
accusative	internum	internam	internum		internōs	internās	interna
ablative	internō	internā	internō		internīs
vocative	interne	interna	internum		internī	internae	interna

Derived terms

• interna
• internālis

Related terms

• inter
• internās

Descendants

Descendants

• → Catalan: intern
• → Danish: intern
• → Dutch: intern
• → French: interne
  • → English: intern, interne
  • ⇒ French: interner
    • → English: intern (verb)
  • → Romanian: intern
• → Galician: interno
• → German: intern
• → Italian: interno
• → Norwegian: intern
• → Occitan: intèrn
• → Portuguese: interno
• → Spanish: interno
• → Swedish: intern

quotation: ... pariterque provincias internis certaminibus aut magistratuum iniuriis fessas refovebat Tacitus Lib.II 54

and likewise the provinces exhausted from internal disputes or the injustice of governors he restored

References

• “internus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “internus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “internus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the Mediterranean Sea: mare medium or internum