Internet
English
Alternative forms
- internet (see Usage notes below)
Etymology
Coined by the U.S. Defense Department in 1986, shortening of internetwork.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɪntəˌnɛt/
- (US) enPR: ĭnʹtərnĕt', IPA(key): /ˈɪntɚˌnɛt/, [ˈɪɾ̃ɚˌnɛt]
Audio (UK) (file) - Hyphenation: Inter‧net
- Rhymes: -ɛt
Proper noun
the Internet
- The specific internet consisting of a global network of computers that communicate using Internet Protocol (IP) and that use Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to identify the best paths to route those communications.
- 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreword", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xi
- [I]f you think the Internet existed in 1970, I can only guess that the education system has left at least one child behind.
- 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreword", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xi
Usage notes
- When referring to the global internet, the proper noun was originally usually capitalised (Internet), reserving internet with a lowercase i for the common noun, referring to any other set of computer networks connected by internetworking; however, increasingly, the proper noun sense also takes a lowercase i. Compare similar examples in how the proper names for the Sun (the sun), the Moon (the moon), the Universe (the universe), and the World (the world) are variably capitalized in English orthography.
- The internet, the World Wide Web (the Web, the web), and cyberspace are often loosely treated as synonymous, but in careful usage, each of those terms has a more precise meaning, overlapping in a semantic field.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:Internet
Derived terms
Translations
specific internet consisting of the global network of computers
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Anagrams
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Finnish
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈint(ː)ernet/, [ˈin̪t̪(ː)e̞rne̞t̪]
- Rhymes: -internet
- Syllabification(key): In‧ter‧net
Declension
Inflection of Internet (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Internet | — | ||
genitive | Internetin | — | ||
partitive | Internetiä | — | ||
illative | Internetiin | — | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Internet | — | ||
accusative | nom. | Internet | — | |
gen. | Internetin | |||
genitive | Internetin | — | ||
partitive | Internetiä | — | ||
inessive | Internetissä | — | ||
elative | Internetistä | — | ||
illative | Internetiin | — | ||
adessive | Internetillä | — | ||
ablative | Internetiltä | — | ||
allative | Internetille | — | ||
essive | Internetinä | — | ||
translative | Internetiksi | — | ||
abessive | Internetittä | — | ||
instructive | — | — | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.nɛt/
Audio (file)
Usage notes
Generally used without the definite article in French, unlike English; thus "on the Internet" in French is sur Internet.
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɪntɐnɛt/
Audio (file)
Usage notes
- While the genitive Internet is often seen, the more Germanic Internets is more frequently used. For example:
- Der Einfluss des Internets nimmt weiter zu.
- The influence of the internet continues to grow.
Declension
Derived terms
Hunsrik
Etymology
Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese Internet.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /intɐˈnet/
Further reading
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɪn̥tɛrˌnɛːt/
Declension
See also
- veraldarvefur (“World Wide Web”)
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈin.ter.net/, /in.terˈnɛt/[1]
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -internet, -ɛt
- Hyphenation: Ìn‧ter‧net, In‧ter‧nèt
References
- Internet in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Plautdietsch
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /inˈtɛr.nɛt/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛrnɛt
- Syllabification: In‧ter‧net
Declension
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌĩ.teɾˈnɛ.t͡ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌĩ.teɾˈnɛ.te/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˌĩ.tɛɾˈnɛ.tɨ/
Proper noun
Internet f
- World Wide Web (an information space on the Internet)
- Internet (specific internet consisting of the global network of computers)
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /înternet/
- Hyphenation: In‧ter‧net
Swedish
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