interim

From Latin interim (“meanwhile”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪntəɹɪm/

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• Hyphenation: in‧ter‧im

interim (not comparable)

1. Transitional.

   Iraq's government is interim.

   • 1960 June, “Diesel locomotive operation on the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 374:

     In a period of transition from steam to diesel, many of the schemes are inevitably of an interim nature and only on full dieselisation will the final pattern be determined and full benefit derived.

2. Temporary.

   Synonyms: provisional, (UK) caretaker

   You are interim manager until he returns from hospital.

   • 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport‎:

     Drogba's goal early in the second half - his fourth in this Wembley showpiece - proved decisive as the remarkable turnaround in Chelsea's fortunes under interim manager Roberto di Matteo was rewarded with silverware.

interim (plural interims)

1. A transitional or temporary period between other events.

   Synonyms: between-time; see also Thesaurus:interim

   His car is in the shop, but they gave him a rental to drive in the interim.

• ad interim

• Termini, mintier, termini

From inter + im, archaic adverb from the stem of the pronoun is (“that, this”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.te.rim/, [ˈɪn̪t̪ɛrɪ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.te.rim/, [ˈin̪t̪erim]

interim (not comparable)

1. meanwhile, in the meantime
2. (post-Augustan) for a while
3. (post-Augustan) sometimes

   Synonyms: interdum, nōnnumquam, aliquandō

• interea, dum

• dum interim

• Asturian: entrín, intre
• Sardinian: interi, interis (adverbial -s)
• → English: interim
• → Galician: intre (semi-learned)
• → German: Interim

• “interim”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “interim”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• interim in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• interim in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.