into

From Middle English in-to, from Old English intō, equivalent to in +‎ to. Cognate with Scots intae.

• (stressed)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.tuː/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.tu/
• (unstressed, before consonants) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.tə/
• (unstressed, before vowels) IPA^(key): /ˈɪn.tʊ/

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• Rhymes: (unstressed, before consonants) -ɪntə
• Hyphenation: in‧to

into

1. To or towards the inside of.

   Mary danced into the house.

   Pour the wine into the decanter.

   The nomads shave intricate designs into their camels' fur.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 2:

     He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.

   • 2011 November 3, Chris Bevan, “Rubin Kazan 1-0 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:

     This time Cudicini was left helpless when Natcho stepped up to expertly curl the ball into the top corner.

2. To or towards the region of.

   We left the house and walked into the street.

   The eagle flew off into the wide blue sky.

3. Against, especially with force or violence.

   The car crashed into the tree.

   I wasn't careful, and walked into a wall.

4. Indicates transition into another form or substance.

   I carved the piece of driftwood into a sculpture of a whale.

   Right before our eyes, Jake turned into a wolf!

   • 2002, Matt Cyr, Something to Teach Me: Journal of an American in the Mountains of Haiti, Educa Vision, Inc., →ISBN, page 25:

     His English is still in its beginning stages, like my Creole, but he was able to translate some Creole songs that he's written into English—not the best English, but English nonetheless.

5. Indicates division or the creation of subgroups or sections.

   A cow's stomach is divided into four chambers.

   • 2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:

     Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.

6. After the start of.

   About 20 minutes into the flight, the pilot reported a fire on board.

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     " […] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably." And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.

7. (colloquial) Interested in or attracted to.

   She's really into Shakespeare right now.

   My date for tonight has black hair, and I'm into that.

   • 2021 August 13, Gayle, Sara Davis, David Pittenger, “abcdefu”, in A Study of the Human Experience Volume One‎, performed by Gayle:

     I was into you, but I'm over it now / And I was trying to be nice / But nothing's getting through, so let me spell it out […]

8. (mathematics) Expressing the operation of division, with the denominator given first. Usually with "goes".

   Three into two won't go.

   24 goes into 48 how many times?

9. (British, archaic, India, mathematics) Expressing the operation of multiplication.[1]

   Five into three is fifteen.

10. Investigating the subject (of).

    There have been calls for research into the pesticides that are blamed for the decline in bee populations.

• in
• inside
• onto
• to

• Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Bounded landmarks", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8

• -tion, -toin, Toni, noit, oint, on it

Proto-Finnic *inta +‎ -o (compare dialectal inta, Estonian ind, Livonian ind), probably borrowed from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (compare Old Swedish inna (“achievement, accomplishment”)).

Alternatively, a Uralic origin has been proposed. Compare Komi-Zyrian ӧд (öd, “speed”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈinto/, [ˈin̪t̪o̞]
• Rhymes: -into
• Syllabification^(key): in‧to

into

1. eagerness, enthusiasm

   odottaa innolla (+ partitive) ― to look forward to

2. passion, fervour/fervor, ardour/ardor
3. zeal, fanaticism

• "for X" = the illative, allative (general) or translative case (to emphasize the purpose or goal), "to (verb)" = the first infinitive (general) or the translative case of the -minen noun (to emphasize the purpose or goal).

• (eagerness, enthusiasm): innokkuus, innostus
• (passion, fervo(u)r, ardo(u)r): intohimo
• (zeal, fanaticism): kiihko

• “into”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• Toni, otin, toin

• intu

Learned borrowing from Classical Latin intus (“within, inside”), from Proto-Italic *entos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁entós (“(from) inside”), derived from *h₁én (“in”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈin.to/
• Rhymes: -into
• Hyphenation: ìn‧to

into

1. (obsolete) inside

   Synonym: dentro

   • 14^th century [1260–1298], anonymous translator, Vita di S. Alessio [Life of saint Alexius]‎, translation of Historia dē sānctō Alexiō [Story of saint Alexius] by Iācōbus dē Vorāgine (in Medieval Latin); republished in Giuseppe Manuzzi, editor, Il libro de' dodici articoli de la fede, e la Vita di S. Alessio‎, Florence: David Passigli, 1864, page 9:

     Allora lo guardiano incontanente se n’andò a lui, e menollo into la Chiesa.

     [original: Tunc custōs festīnus exiit et ipsum in ecclēsiam intrōdūxit.]

     The warden then immediately went to him, and led him inside the church.

• Accademia della Crusca (p. 1961), “into”, in Grande dizionario della lingua italiana (in Italian), volume 8, page 305

Contraction of inte (“in”) + o m sg (“the”, definite article).

• IPA^(key): /ˈiŋtu/

into

1. in the (+ a masculine name in the singular)
   • 1984, “Sinàn Capudàn Pascià”, in Fabrizio De André (lyrics), Mauro Pagani (music), Crêuza de mä [Muletrack by the sea], performed by Fabrizio De André:

     Into mêzo do mâ gh'è 'n péscio tondo / che, quando o vedde e brutte, o va 'nscio fondo

     In the middle of the sea is a round fish, that goes to the bottom when things turn ugly

• ne-o

• inta
• inte
• inti

into

1. Alternative spelling of in-to

From Latin intus.

• IPA^(key): [ind̪ɐ]

into

1. in (surrounded by)

in +‎ tō

• IPA^(key): /inˈtoː/

intō

1. into

• Middle English: in-to, into, inne to, jn to, jne to, inte
  • English: into
  • Scots: intae

întó class 9 (plural ízintó class 10)

1. thing

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• IPA^(key): [íːⁿtó]

íntó class 9 (plural ízintó class 10)

1. thing

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

into

1. mother

• David Appleyard, Beja as a Cushitic language, in Egyptian and Semito-Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) Studies: In Memoriam W. Vycichl (Yem into "mother")

From in- +‎ -tha (“to name, to choose”) +‎ -o. Compare with a similar derivation in Swahili jambo.

• IPA^(key): /îːntó/

întó class 9 (plural ízintó class 10)

1. thing

• C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “-tho”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “-tho (2-6.3)”