English

intermural

Intermural comes from Latin intermūrālis.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

Earliest quotation: 1854, Kenelm Henry Digby, Compitum: Or: “Turn from this picture to a vault or intermural…”

Equivalent to inter- + mural

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér ‘between’

Proto-Italic *n̥ter ‘between’

Latin inter ‘between’

Proto-Indo-European *mey- ‘to fix, to build fortifications or fences’

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Latin murus ‘wall’

Latin muralis ‘wall’

Old French mural

French mural

English mural

Every English word from Latin intermūrālis

adj Between walls; enclosed by walls.

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