entro Italian · revision 38430

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=late 12th century, Ritmo di sant'Alessio|origins=ine-pro *h₁énteros}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /ˈen.tro/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|la|intrō|t=inside, to the inside]].^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(GRADIT 2003)^(Wiktionary) The TLIO adds the influence of [[m|la|inter|t=between]].^(TLIO) [[ro|întru]] is the same word, and REW also cites [[osp|entro|t=until]].^(Nocentini 2010)^(REW 1935)

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+ The Latin adverb and [[m|la|intrā|t=within]] are old ablatives of an adjective [[m|la|*interus|t=inner]], formed from [[m|la|in|t=in]] with the suffix ⟨-ter⟩ of contrast and parallel to [[m|la|exterus|t=outer]].^(Nocentini 2010)^(DELI 1999)^(Devoto 1968) It goes back to [[ine-pro|*h₁énteros|t=inner]], and Nocentini compares [[grc|ἔντερον|tr=énteron|t=intestine]].^(Wiktionary)^(Nocentini 2010)

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+ [[entroterra]] is modelled on [[de|Hinterland]], and [[entrobordo]] on [[fuoribordo]].^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The first record is in the ''Ritmo di sant'Alessio'', a poem from the Marche of the late 12th century, as an adverb “inside”.^(TLIO) DELI dates the adverb to Bono Giamboni (before 1292) and the preposition “inside, in” to Cecco Angiolieri (before 1313), who wrote that if he met his lady ''entro la via'' (in the street) he would hardly know her.^(DELI 1999)^(GDLI)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Old Italian used ''entro'' with many other words: ''d'entro'' “from inside” and “inner”, ''per entro'' “through”, ''entro a'' and ''entro in'', as in Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio.^(TLIO)^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)^(Zingarelli 2010) The time sense “before the end of” is recorded in Daniello Bartoli, before 1685.^(DELI 1999) Tommaseo noted that the adverb without a following noun was by then used only in verse.^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861) Today the time sense is the usual one, and the spatial sense is literary.^(Treccani 2011)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * Late 12th century – The ''Ritmo di sant'Alessio'' has the first record.^(TLIO)

+ * Before 1292 – Bono Giamboni uses ''entro'' as an adverb.^(DELI 1999)

+ * Before 1313 – Cecco Angiolieri uses it as a preposition.^(DELI 1999)^(GDLI)

+ * Before 1685 – Daniello Bartoli uses it for “before the end of”.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1942 – ''Entroterra'' and ''entrobordo'' are recorded.^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Preposition===

+ # Of time, [[m|en|within]], by, no later than: ''Devo finire la relazione entro venerdì.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(literary)'' Of place, inside, within, also followed by ''a'' or ''di'': ''entro le mura della città''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(literary)'' Among, between.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # In ''entro certi limiti'', within limits, to some extent.^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

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+ ===Adverb===

+ # ''(literary or rare)'' Inside, especially after another adverb: ''qua entro'', ''là entro''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Treccani 2011)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[entroterra]]

+ * [[entrobordo]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dentro]]

+ * [[entrare]]

+ * [[interno]]

+ * [[la|intro]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ In popular Tuscan ''entro'' is also a shortened past participle of ''entrare'', “entered”.^(DEI|1488)^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861) ''Entro e non oltre'' (by and no later than) is used for deadlines.^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}