iter

See also: -iter, ITER, and iter.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin iter (“passage”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪtə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

iter (plural iters)

1. (archaic, anatomy) A passage, especially the passage between the third and fourth ventricles in the brain; the cerebral aqueduct.
   • 1916, Mayo Clinic, Collected Papers of the Mayo Clinic and the Mayo Foundation, page 869:

     This fluid passes through the main iters which connect the various ventricles and filters through the thin membranes of the brain and cord, equalizing the pressure at all points.

Derived terms

• iteral

References

• “iter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• REIT, Teri, reit, rite, tier, tire, trie

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin iter (“route”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.ter/
• Rhymes: -iter
• Hyphenation: ì‧ter

Noun

iter m (invariable)

1. procedure, course

   Synonyms: procedura, corso

Anagrams

• Reti, erti, etri, irte, reti

Latin

Alternative forms

• itiner, itur

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *eitər, *eitor, conflation of an r/n-stem (where both stems are conflated, thus gen. itineris from inherited *itinis and analogical *iteris; compare iecur and femur), from Proto-Indo-European reconstructed as *h₁éy-tr̥ ~ *h₁i-tén-, from *h₁ey- (whence eō).

Cognate with Tocharian A ytārye (“path, road”), Avestan 𐬌𐬚𐬥𐬀 (iθna) in 𐬞𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌-𐬌𐬚𐬥𐬀- (paⁱri-iθna-, “(end of) lifetime”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪ.tɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈiː.ter]

Noun

iter n (genitive itineris or iteris or iteneris); third declension

1. a route
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.6:

     Erant omnīnō itinera duo, quibus itineribus domō exīre possent […] .

     There were, altogether, two ways — routes by which they could leave their home territory […] .
     (“Observe the form of this relative sentence, common in Caesar, which gives the antecedent noun [iter] in both clauses. It is usually omitted in one or the other; in English, almost always in the relative clause; in Latin, quite as often in the other.” — Greenough, D’Ooge, Daniell, 1898.)

   1. a journey, trip
   2. a march
   3. a course
   4. a path; a road

      Synonym: via

      Doceās iter et sacra ōstia pandās.

      Show us the way and lay open the sacred portals.

   5. (Medieval Latin, law) a court circuit
2. (Medieval Latin, medicine) a passage

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem; three different stems).

	singular	plural
nominative	iter	itinera itera itenera
genitive	itineris iteris iteneris	itinerum iterum itenerum
dative	itinerī iterī itenerī	itineribus iteribus iteneribus
accusative	iter	itinera itera itenera
ablative	itinere itere itenere	itineribus iteribus iteneribus
vocative	iter	itinera itera itenera

Derived terms

• in itinere
• itinerārium
• itinerārius
• itinerātor
• itineror
• porta itinerī longissima

Descendants

• >? Old French: erre, eirre, oirre
  • French: erre
• → English: iter
• → Italian: iter

References

• “iter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “iter”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to finish a very long journey: longum itineris spatium emetiri
    
  • to return from a journey: ex itinere redire
    
  • on a journey; by the way: in itinere
    
  • travelling day and night: itinera diurna nocturnaque
    
  • to spare oneself the trouble of the voyage: labore supersedēre (itineris) (Fam. 4. 2. 4)
    
  • by forced marches: magnis itineribus (Sall. Iug. 37)
    
  • by the longest possible forced marches: quam maximis itineribus (potest)
    
  • to change one's route and march towards..: averso itinere contendere in...
    
  • (ambiguous) to obstruct a road; to close a route: iter obstruere
    
  • (ambiguous) (1) to take a journey, (2) to make, lay down a road (rare): iter facere
    
  • (ambiguous) to travel together: una iter facere
    
  • (ambiguous) to begin a journey (on foot, on horseback, by land): iter ingredi (pedibus, equo, terra)
    
  • (ambiguous) to journey towards a place: iter aliquo dirigere, intendere
    
  • (ambiguous) travel by land, on foot: iter terrestre, pedestre
    
  • (ambiguous) a day's journey: iter unius diei or simply diei
    
  • (ambiguous) an impassable road: iter impeditum
    
  • (ambiguous) to march: iter facere
    
  • (ambiguous) to traverse a route: iter conficere (B. C. 1. 70)
    
  • (ambiguous) to quicken the pace of marching: iter maturare, accelerare
    
  • (ambiguous) to march without interruption: iter continuare (B. C. 3. 11)
    
  • (ambiguous) not to interrupt the march: iter non intermittere
    
  • (ambiguous) to deviate, change the direction: iter flectere, convertere, avertere
    
  • (ambiguous) to force a way, a passage: iter tentare per vim (cf. sect. II. 3)
    
  • (ambiguous) a breach: iter ruina patefactum
    
• “iter”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “iter”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Turkish

Verb

iter

1. third-person singular indicative aorist of itmek