English

Intertype

Trade name, presumably inter- + type.

Formed from inter- + type

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér ‘between’

Proto-Italic *n̥ter ‘between’

Latin inter ‘between’

Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- ‘to push’

Ancient Greek τύπτω ‘to strike’

Ancient Greek τύπος ‘mark’

Latin typus

Middle English type ‘symbol’

English type

Today it means

noun A typecasting machine closely resembling the linotype, and using the same matrices.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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