iter

Borrowed from Latin iter (“passage”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪtə(ɹ)/

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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.

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

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

Borrowed from Latin iter (“route”).

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

iter m (invariable)

1. procedure, course

   Synonyms: procedura, corso

• Reti, erti, etri, irte, reti

• itiner, itur

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”).^[1]

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

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

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

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

• “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

iter

1. third-person singular indicative aorist of itmek