intus

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin intus (“inside”). Originally in the slang of students, 19th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪntʊs/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Adverb

intus

1. (colloquial, with haben) down (alcohol, food etc.)

   Ich habe schon drei Bier intus. ― I've already had three beers.

Further reading

• “intus” in Duden online
• “intus”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)

Latin

Alternative forms

• ab intus (Late Latin)
• dē intus (Late Latin)

Etymology

From in (“in, at”) +‎ -tus (adverb ending). Cognate with Ancient Greek ἐντός (entós, “within”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪn.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈin.tus]
• Hyphenation: in‧tus

Adverb

intus (not comparable)

1. (static) on the inside: within, inside

   Synonym: intrōrsum

   Antonym: extra

   • c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE, Plautus, Captivi 1.2.83–84:

     Ibo intro atque intus subducam ratiunculam,
     quantillum argenti mi apud trapezitam siet.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 206 BCE, Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 2.6.54–55:

     Abi intro ad vos domum
     continuo, vide sitne istaec vostra intus.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 160 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Adelphoe 4.568–569:

     Non potuit melius. Idem quod ego sentit te esse huic rei caput.
     Sed estne frater intus?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 63 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam orationes 2.11:

     Omnia sunt externa unius virtute terra marique pacata; domesticum bellum manet, intus insidiae sunt, intus inclusum periculum est, intus est hostis.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (chiefly pre-classical) from within, from the inside, out
   • c. 209 BCE, Plautus, Asinaria 585–586:

     Philaenium estne haec quae intus exit
     atque Argyrippus una?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 161 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Eunuchus 4.764–765:

     tum abi atque obsera ostium intus, dum ego hinc transcurro ad forum:
     volo ego adesse hic advocatos nobis in turba hac.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 25 BCE – c. 50 CE, Aulus Cornelius Celsus, De medicina 8.4.17:

     Si id ex facili fieri non potest, subicienda lammina est, quam custodem eius membranae esse proposui; ut super, quicquid spinosum est et intus eminet, excidatur; […]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. (classically proscribed, for intrō) to the inside: within
   • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 2.711–713:

     Nam sua cuique cibis ex omnibus intus in artus
     corpora discedunt conexaque convenientis
     efficiunt motus;

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses 10.456–457:

     Thalami iam limina tangit,
     iamque fores aperit, iam ducitur intus: […]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• intestīnus

Descendants

• >? Italian: into
• Ligurian: inte
• Neapolitan: into, dinto, rinto
• Old French: enz
  • Norman: yens
• → German: intus

Preposition

intus (poetic, rare)

1. inside [with ablative or genitive]
   • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 4.1091:

     Nam cibus atque umor membris adsumitur intus; […]

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   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 7.192–194:

     Tālī intus templō dīuum patriāque Latīnus
     sēde sedēns Teucrōs ad sēsē in tēcta uocāuit,
     atque haec ingressīs placidō prior ēdidit ōre: […]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses 8.29:

     intus aedium audito ruditu meo

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• “intus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “intus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "intus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “intus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.