English
intertex
Intertex comes from Latin intertexere.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEintertexere
- Englishearliest quotation a. 1638intertex
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEintertexere
- Englishearliest quotation a. 1638intertex
Earliest quotation: a. 1638, Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Under-woods. Consisting of Divers Poems. (please specify the: “The bright bride's paths, embellish'd more than thine, /…”
A compound of inter ‘between’ + texere ‘to weave’
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér ‘between’
Proto-Italic *n̥ter ‘between’
Latin inter ‘between’
Every English word from Latin intertexere
Today it means
verb To intertwine; to weave or bind together.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin intertexere / intertex