entamer
French
verb
Definitions
- to cut into (something)
- to remove a small piece of something
- (figurative) to eat into (savings etc.); to undermine (credibility)
- (figurative) to start, to begin, initiate
Etymology
Derived from Latin intaminare, in- (not, in, on, un-, at, into, onto, inside, without, upon, within).
Origin
Latin
in-
Gloss
not, in, on, un-, at, into, onto, inside, without, upon, within
Concept
Semantic Field
Miscellaneous function words
Ontological Category
Other
Kanji
内
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- inconcoct English
- incorrigible English
- incremable English
- *imprendō Latin
- *impēiōrāre Latin
- *inclāvāre Latin
- ferō Latin
- in Latin
- in- Latin
- incatenatio Latin
- inferō Latin
- innocens Latin
- inquaerere, inquiro Latin
- installāre Latin
- installō Latin
- intaminare Latin
- nocens Latin
- in- German
- in- Italian
- in- French
- rentamer French
- in- Spanish, Castilian
- intransigente Spanish, Castilian
- inusitado Spanish, Castilian
- *h₁én Proto-Indo-European
- in- Portuguese
- inusitado Portuguese
- in- Middle English
- acte Old French
- en- Old French
- entamer Old French
- in- Catalan, Valencian
- în- Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- încotro Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- îndărăt Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- en- Old Portuguese
- ãn- Aromanian
- *en- Proto-Italic
- *stall Frankish
- en- Old Occitan
- en- Old Spanish
- ntufà Neapolitan
- entamenar prv