English

intercardinal

From inter- + cardinal.

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér ‘between’

Proto-Italic *n̥ter ‘between’

Latin inter ‘between’

Latin cardō

Latin cardinālis ‘pertaining to a hinge, hence applied to that…’

Middle French cardinal

Today it means

adj Between the cardinal directions, as for example southwest between south and west.

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

Etymograph / intercardinal