Compounds Verbs with Inter-

Inter- can appear as a prefix to verbs (and also to derived nouns, adjectives and adverbs). Where it appears, it often bears one of three general effects on the corresponding base verb—

1. Effect of Intervals

• interaestuō—to boil slowly (bubble up from time to time)
• interārescō—to decay (dry up little by little)
• interdō—to give at intervals
• interpurgō—to cleanse here and there
• interbrādō—to scape here and there
• intersileō—to remain silent in the meanwhile

2. Effect of Insertion

• intercalō—to insert a day in the calendar
• intercapiō—to take away (by coming between the object and its possessor)
• intercēdō—to intervene
• intercipiō—to intercept
• interclāmō—to cry aloud amid
• interfluō—to flow between
• internascor—to grow among
• interrogō—to interrogate
• intersaepiō—to fence in
• interveniō—to come between

3. Effect of Dissolution

• intercīdō—to cut up
• internoscō—to distinguish
• interpolō—to spoil, corrupt
• interprīmō—to squeeze or crush to pieces
• interscindō—to tear asunder
• interversor—to turn hither and thither

Of course, there is conceptual overlap amid these categories. Interrelations, if you will.

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Compound Verbs with Intrā—

You would think, given the vast tribe of verbal compounds with inter- as a prefix, that a few species of intrā-compounds would also inhabit that wood of the Latin dictionary. In fact, they are highly endangered, perhaps even extinct. Here are a few compound adjectives and nouns that I discovered; the verbs were nowhere to be found.

• intrābilis (adj)—possible to enter
• intrāclusus (adj)—shut in, enclosed
• intrāmeātus, -ūs (n)—a journey within
• intrāmūrānus (adj)—within the walls
• intrāneus (adj)—within