English
entr'acte
Entr'acte comes from French entr'acte ‘dated spelling of entracte’.
- Frenchc. 1600–presententr'acte‘dated spelling of entracte’
- Englishtodaysame form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presententr'acte‘dated spelling of entracte’
- Englishtodaysame form
A compound of entre ‘between’ + acte ‘act’
Proto-Indo-European *h₁enter ‘between’
Latin inter ‘between, among’
Old French entre ‘between’
Middle French entre ‘between’
French entre ‘between’
Latin actus
French acte ‘act’
Every English word from French entr'acte
Today it means
noun An interval between two acts of a play or opera.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French entr'acte / entr'acte