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Etymology and origin of the Latin word intralia

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Formation
Derivation
Ultimate origin
Latin intra
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Latin intrā
Italian tra
Latin intrālia
From the same root
Latin intrāneus ← intrā
Latin intrō ← intrā

Forms

intrālia n pl (genitive intrālium); third declension[1][2]

Etymology

The TLL derives it from Latin intrā (“within”), comparing int(e)rānea (“entrails”) and ilia (“groin, guts”).[1] Heraeus traced French entrailles to it.[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

The TLL cites it in a gloss and in the Latin miracles of Thecla, where a sword wound lays the entrails open to view.[1]

Semantic evolution

It meant the intestines or entrails, a synonym of interānea.[1][2] Burchard of Worms's Decretum and a penitential quoted by Du Cange rule that pigs or hens that had eaten human blood were to be killed and their entrails thrown away.[2][3] Sigebert of Gembloux tells how the monks of Gembloux took out the entrails of a saint's body to protect it from the summer heat.[2]

Meanings

Noun

  1. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin, plural) The entrails, intestines.[1][2][3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  2. ^ a b c d e Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch bis zum ausgehenden 13. Jahrhundert (1967–), Munich: C. H. Beck; Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  3. ^ a b du Cange, Charles du Fresne, et al. (1883–1887), Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis, augmented ed. by Léopold Favre, Niort: L. Favre
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“Intralia.” Etymologically, 8 Nov. 2026, etymologically.com/la/intralia. Accessed 8 Nov. 2026.

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