"interglacial" meaning in English

See interglacial in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Rhymes: -eɪʃəl Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- English glacial English interglacial From inter- + glacial. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|inter-|glacial|text=+|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- English glacial English interglacial [Appendix:Glossary#loanword|Borrowed]] from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "between", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "between", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "between", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "alt" : "*h₁n̥tér", "id" : "between", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "in", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*h₁én", "lang" : "ine-pro" }, { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-tér", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*h₁entér", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*n̥ter", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "inter", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "inter-", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "inter-", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }, { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "glacial", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "interglacial", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="interglacial"> From inter- + glacial. Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} interglacial (not comparable)
  1. Occurring between glaciations (colloquially known as ice ages). Tags: not-comparable Derived forms: interglacially, interglacial optimum Translations (occurring between glaciations): buzlaqarası (Azerbaijani), interglacial (Catalan), ynterrewlivek (Cornish), interglaciaire (French), post-glaciaire (French), interglazial (German), interglaciális (Hungarian), idiroighreach (Irish), мұздықаралық (muzdıqaralıq) (Kazakh), gian băng (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-interglacial-en-adj-OY~goZLK Categories (other): English entries with etymology texts, English entries with etymology trees, English entries with etymon, English terms prefixed with inter-, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with etymology trees, Pages with etymon, Terms with Azerbaijani translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Cornish translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Kazakh translations, Terms with Vietnamese translations Disambiguation of English entries with etymology texts: 52 48 Disambiguation of English entries with etymology trees: 52 48 Disambiguation of English entries with etymon: 50 50 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with inter-: 51 49 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 53 47 Disambiguation of Pages with etymology trees: 53 47 Disambiguation of Pages with etymon: 54 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Azerbaijani translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 50 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Cornish translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Kazakh translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Vietnamese translations: 47 53

Noun

Forms: interglacials [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃəl Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- English glacial English interglacial From inter- + glacial. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|inter-|glacial|text=+|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *-tér Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér Proto-Italic *n̥ter Latin inter Latin inter-bor. English inter- English glacial English interglacial [Appendix:Glossary#loanword|Borrowed]] from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "between", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "between", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "between", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "alt" : "*h₁n̥tér", "id" : "between", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "in", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*h₁én", "lang" : "ine-pro" }, { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-tér", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*h₁entér", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*n̥ter", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "inter", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "inter-", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "inter-", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }, { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "glacial", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "interglacial", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="interglacial"> From inter- + glacial. Head templates: {{en-noun}} interglacial (plural interglacials)
  1. The relatively warm period between glacial periods. Related terms: interstadial Translations (relatively warm period between glacial periods): prys ynterrewlivek [masculine] (Cornish), mellemistid [common-gender] (Danish), interglasiaali (Finnish), Warmzeit [feminine] (German), Interglazial [neuter] (German), interglaciális (Hungarian), tréimhse idiroighreach [feminine] (Irish)
    Sense id: en-interglacial-en-noun--UjUKSlY Categories (other): English entries referencing missing etymons, English entries with etymology texts, English entries with etymology trees, English entries with etymon, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with inter-, Entries with translation boxes, Pages using etymon with no ID, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Pages with etymology trees, Pages with etymon, Terms with Azerbaijani translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Cornish translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Kazakh translations, Terms with Vietnamese translations Disambiguation of English entries referencing missing etymons: 41 59 Disambiguation of English entries with etymology texts: 52 48 Disambiguation of English entries with etymology trees: 52 48 Disambiguation of English entries with etymon: 50 50 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 62 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with inter-: 51 49 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 53 47 Disambiguation of Pages using etymon with no ID: 42 58 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 43 57 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 37 63 Disambiguation of Pages with etymology trees: 53 47 Disambiguation of Pages with etymon: 54 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Azerbaijani translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 50 50 Disambiguation of Terms with Cornish translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Kazakh translations: 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Vietnamese translations: 47 53

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": ":af",
        "3": "inter-",
        "4": "glacial",
        "text": "+",
        "tree": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *h₁én\nProto-Indo-European *-tér\nProto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér\nProto-Italic *n̥ter\nLatin inter\nLatin inter-bor.\nEnglish inter-\nEnglish glacial\nEnglish interglacial\n[Appendix:Glossary#loanword|Borrowed]] from\", \"terms\" : [ { \"id\" : \"between\", \"children\" : [ { \"terms\" : [ { \"id\" : \"between\", \"children\" : [ { \"terms\" : [ { \"id\" : \"between\", \"children\" : [ { \"terms\" : [ { \"alt\" : \"*h₁n̥tér\", \"id\" : \"between\", \"children\" : [ { \"terms\" : [ { \"id\" : \"in\", \"children\" : [ ], \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Indo-European\", \"term\" : \"*h₁én\", \"lang\" : \"ine-pro\" }, { \"children\" : [ ], \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Indo-European\", \"term\" : \"*-tér\", \"status\" : \"missing\", \"lang\" : \"ine-pro\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"From\", \"is_group\" : true, \"keyword\" : \"affix\" } ], \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Indo-European\", \"term\" : \"*h₁entér\", \"lang\" : \"ine-pro\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"Inherited from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Italic\", \"term\" : \"*n̥ter\", \"lang\" : \"itc-pro\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"Inherited from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang_name\" : \"Latin\", \"term\" : \"inter\", \"lang\" : \"la\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"From\", \"keyword\" : \"from\" } ], \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang_name\" : \"Latin\", \"term\" : \"inter-\", \"lang\" : \"la\" } ], \"keyword\" : \"bor\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"English\", \"term\" : \"inter-\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"en\" }, { \"children\" : [ ], \"lang_name\" : \"English\", \"term\" : \"glacial\", \"status\" : \"missing\", \"lang\" : \"en\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"From\", \"is_group\" : true, \"keyword\" : \"affix\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"English\", \"term\" : \"interglacial\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"en\" }\" data-lang=\"en\" data-title=\"interglacial\">\nFrom inter- + glacial.",
      "name": "ety"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *h₁én\nProto-Indo-European *-tér\nProto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér\nProto-Italic *n̥ter\nLatin inter\nLatin inter-bor.\nEnglish inter-\nEnglish glacial\nEnglish interglacial\nFrom inter- + glacial.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "interglacial (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "52 48",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with etymology texts",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "52 48",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with etymology trees",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with etymon",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "51 49",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with inter-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "53 47",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "53 47",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with etymology trees",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with etymon",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Azerbaijani translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Catalan translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Cornish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Danish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Irish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Kazakh translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "interglacially"
        },
        {
          "word": "interglacial optimum"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              95,
              107
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2014, Antoinette Mannion, Global Environmental Change, page 71:",
          "text": "Palaeoenvironmental evidence from northwest Europe indicates that the oligocratic phase of the interglacial cycle (Fig. 3.1) had begun by ca. 5K years BP.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Occurring between glaciations (colloquially known as ice ages)."
      ],
      "id": "en-interglacial-en-adj-OY~goZLK",
      "links": [
        [
          "glaciation",
          "glaciation"
        ],
        [
          "colloquially",
          "colloquially"
        ],
        [
          "ice age",
          "ice age"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "lang_code": "az",
          "sense": "occurring between glaciations",
          "word": "buzlaqarası"
        },
        {
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "lang_code": "ca",
          "sense": "occurring between glaciations",
          "word": "interglacial"
        },
        {
          "code": "kw",
          "lang": "Cornish",
          "lang_code": "kw",
          "sense": "occurring between glaciations",
          "word": "ynterrewlivek"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "lang_code": "fr",
          "sense": "occurring between glaciations",
          "word": "interglaciaire"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "lang_code": "fr",
          "sense": "occurring between glaciations",
          "word": "post-glaciaire"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "lang_code": "de",
          "sense": "occurring between glaciations",
          "word": "interglazial"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "lang_code": "hu",
          "sense": "occurring between glaciations",
          "word": "interglaciális"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "lang_code": "ga",
          "sense": "occurring between glaciations",
          "word": "idiroighreach"
        },
        {
          "code": "kk",
          "lang": "Kazakh",
          "lang_code": "kk",
          "roman": "muzdıqaralıq",
          "sense": "occurring between glaciations",
          "word": "мұздықаралық"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "lang_code": "vi",
          "sense": "occurring between glaciations",
          "word": "gian băng"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪʃəl"
    }
  ],
  "word": "interglacial"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": ":af",
        "3": "inter-",
        "4": "glacial",
        "text": "+",
        "tree": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *h₁én\nProto-Indo-European *-tér\nProto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér\nProto-Italic *n̥ter\nLatin inter\nLatin inter-bor.\nEnglish inter-\nEnglish glacial\nEnglish interglacial\n[Appendix:Glossary#loanword|Borrowed]] from\", \"terms\" : [ { \"id\" : \"between\", \"children\" : [ { \"terms\" : [ { \"id\" : \"between\", \"children\" : [ { \"terms\" : [ { \"id\" : \"between\", \"children\" : [ { \"terms\" : [ { \"alt\" : \"*h₁n̥tér\", \"id\" : \"between\", \"children\" : [ { \"terms\" : [ { \"id\" : \"in\", \"children\" : [ ], \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Indo-European\", \"term\" : \"*h₁én\", \"lang\" : \"ine-pro\" }, { \"children\" : [ ], \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Indo-European\", \"term\" : \"*-tér\", \"status\" : \"missing\", \"lang\" : \"ine-pro\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"From\", \"is_group\" : true, \"keyword\" : \"affix\" } ], \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Indo-European\", \"term\" : \"*h₁entér\", \"lang\" : \"ine-pro\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"Inherited from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Italic\", \"term\" : \"*n̥ter\", \"lang\" : \"itc-pro\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"Inherited from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang_name\" : \"Latin\", \"term\" : \"inter\", \"lang\" : \"la\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"From\", \"keyword\" : \"from\" } ], \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang_name\" : \"Latin\", \"term\" : \"inter-\", \"lang\" : \"la\" } ], \"keyword\" : \"bor\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"English\", \"term\" : \"inter-\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"en\" }, { \"children\" : [ ], \"lang_name\" : \"English\", \"term\" : \"glacial\", \"status\" : \"missing\", \"lang\" : \"en\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"From\", \"is_group\" : true, \"keyword\" : \"affix\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"English\", \"term\" : \"interglacial\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"en\" }\" data-lang=\"en\" data-title=\"interglacial\">\nFrom inter- + glacial.",
      "name": "ety"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *h₁én\nProto-Indo-European *-tér\nProto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér\nProto-Italic *n̥ter\nLatin inter\nLatin inter-bor.\nEnglish inter-\nEnglish glacial\nEnglish interglacial\nFrom inter- + glacial.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "interglacials",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "interglacial (plural interglacials)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "41 59",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries referencing missing etymons",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "52 48",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with etymology texts",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "52 48",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with etymology trees",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with etymon",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "38 62",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "51 49",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with inter-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "53 47",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "42 58",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages using etymon with no ID",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "43 57",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "37 63",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "53 47",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with etymology trees",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with etymon",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Azerbaijani translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Catalan translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Cornish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Danish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Irish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Kazakh translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              178,
              190
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2019, Peter Vincent, The Biogeography of the British Isles: An Introduction, page 209:",
          "text": "The climatic recession which produced Britain's last glaciers came rapidly to an end about 10,000 bp, as temperatures rose during the end of the protocratic phase of the present interglacial.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The relatively warm period between glacial periods."
      ],
      "id": "en-interglacial-en-noun--UjUKSlY",
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "interstadial"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "kw",
          "lang": "Cornish",
          "lang_code": "kw",
          "sense": "relatively warm period between glacial periods",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "prys ynterrewlivek"
        },
        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "lang_code": "da",
          "sense": "relatively warm period between glacial periods",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "mellemistid"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "lang_code": "fi",
          "sense": "relatively warm period between glacial periods",
          "word": "interglasiaali"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "lang_code": "de",
          "sense": "relatively warm period between glacial periods",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Warmzeit"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "lang_code": "de",
          "sense": "relatively warm period between glacial periods",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Interglazial"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "lang_code": "hu",
          "sense": "relatively warm period between glacial periods",
          "word": "interglaciális"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "lang_code": "ga",
          "sense": "relatively warm period between glacial periods",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "tréimhse idiroighreach"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪʃəl"
    }
  ],
  "word": "interglacial"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries referencing missing etymons",
    "English entries with etymology texts",
    "English entries with etymology trees",
    "English entries with etymon",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₁entér",
    "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₁én",
    "English terms prefixed with inter-",
    "English uncomparable adjectives",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages using etymon with no ID",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Pages with etymology trees",
    "Pages with etymon",
    "Rhymes:English/eɪʃəl",
    "Rhymes:English/eɪʃəl/4 syllables",
    "Terms with Azerbaijani translations",
    "Terms with Catalan translations",
    "Terms with Cornish translations",
    "Terms with Danish translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Irish translations",
    "Terms with Kazakh translations",
    "Terms with Vietnamese translations"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "interglacially"
    },
    {
      "word": "interglacial optimum"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": ":af",
        "3": "inter-",
        "4": "glacial",
        "text": "+",
        "tree": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *h₁én\nProto-Indo-European *-tér\nProto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér\nProto-Italic *n̥ter\nLatin inter\nLatin inter-bor.\nEnglish inter-\nEnglish glacial\nEnglish interglacial\n[Appendix:Glossary#loanword|Borrowed]] from\", \"terms\" : [ { \"id\" : \"between\", \"children\" : [ { \"terms\" : [ { \"id\" : \"between\", \"children\" : [ { \"terms\" : [ { \"id\" : \"between\", \"children\" : [ { \"terms\" : [ { \"alt\" : \"*h₁n̥tér\", \"id\" : \"between\", \"children\" : [ { \"terms\" : [ { \"id\" : \"in\", \"children\" : [ ], \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Indo-European\", \"term\" : \"*h₁én\", \"lang\" : \"ine-pro\" }, { \"children\" : [ ], \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Indo-European\", \"term\" : \"*-tér\", \"status\" : \"missing\", \"lang\" : \"ine-pro\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"From\", \"is_group\" : true, \"keyword\" : \"affix\" } ], \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Indo-European\", \"term\" : \"*h₁entér\", \"lang\" : \"ine-pro\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"Inherited from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Italic\", \"term\" : \"*n̥ter\", \"lang\" : \"itc-pro\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"Inherited from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang_name\" : \"Latin\", \"term\" : \"inter\", \"lang\" : \"la\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"From\", \"keyword\" : \"from\" } ], \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang_name\" : \"Latin\", \"term\" : \"inter-\", \"lang\" : \"la\" } ], \"keyword\" : \"bor\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"English\", \"term\" : \"inter-\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"en\" }, { \"children\" : [ ], \"lang_name\" : \"English\", \"term\" : \"glacial\", \"status\" : \"missing\", \"lang\" : \"en\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"From\", \"is_group\" : true, \"keyword\" : \"affix\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"English\", \"term\" : \"interglacial\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"en\" }\" data-lang=\"en\" data-title=\"interglacial\">\nFrom inter- + glacial.",
      "name": "ety"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *h₁én\nProto-Indo-European *-tér\nProto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér\nProto-Italic *n̥ter\nLatin inter\nLatin inter-bor.\nEnglish inter-\nEnglish glacial\nEnglish interglacial\nFrom inter- + glacial.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "interglacial (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              95,
              107
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2014, Antoinette Mannion, Global Environmental Change, page 71:",
          "text": "Palaeoenvironmental evidence from northwest Europe indicates that the oligocratic phase of the interglacial cycle (Fig. 3.1) had begun by ca. 5K years BP.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Occurring between glaciations (colloquially known as ice ages)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "glaciation",
          "glaciation"
        ],
        [
          "colloquially",
          "colloquially"
        ],
        [
          "ice age",
          "ice age"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪʃəl"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "lang_code": "az",
      "sense": "occurring between glaciations",
      "word": "buzlaqarası"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "lang_code": "ca",
      "sense": "occurring between glaciations",
      "word": "interglacial"
    },
    {
      "code": "kw",
      "lang": "Cornish",
      "lang_code": "kw",
      "sense": "occurring between glaciations",
      "word": "ynterrewlivek"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "occurring between glaciations",
      "word": "interglaciaire"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "occurring between glaciations",
      "word": "post-glaciaire"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "occurring between glaciations",
      "word": "interglazial"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "lang_code": "hu",
      "sense": "occurring between glaciations",
      "word": "interglaciális"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "lang_code": "ga",
      "sense": "occurring between glaciations",
      "word": "idiroighreach"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "lang_code": "kk",
      "roman": "muzdıqaralıq",
      "sense": "occurring between glaciations",
      "word": "мұздықаралық"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "lang_code": "vi",
      "sense": "occurring between glaciations",
      "word": "gian băng"
    }
  ],
  "word": "interglacial"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries referencing missing etymons",
    "English entries with etymology texts",
    "English entries with etymology trees",
    "English entries with etymon",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₁entér",
    "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₁én",
    "English terms prefixed with inter-",
    "English uncomparable adjectives",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages using etymon with no ID",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Pages with etymology trees",
    "Pages with etymon",
    "Rhymes:English/eɪʃəl",
    "Rhymes:English/eɪʃəl/4 syllables",
    "Terms with Azerbaijani translations",
    "Terms with Catalan translations",
    "Terms with Cornish translations",
    "Terms with Danish translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Irish translations",
    "Terms with Kazakh translations",
    "Terms with Vietnamese translations"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": ":af",
        "3": "inter-",
        "4": "glacial",
        "text": "+",
        "tree": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *h₁én\nProto-Indo-European *-tér\nProto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér\nProto-Italic *n̥ter\nLatin inter\nLatin inter-bor.\nEnglish inter-\nEnglish glacial\nEnglish interglacial\n[Appendix:Glossary#loanword|Borrowed]] from\", \"terms\" : [ { \"id\" : \"between\", \"children\" : [ { \"terms\" : [ { \"id\" : \"between\", \"children\" : [ { \"terms\" : [ { \"id\" : \"between\", \"children\" : [ { \"terms\" : [ { \"alt\" : \"*h₁n̥tér\", \"id\" : \"between\", \"children\" : [ { \"terms\" : [ { \"id\" : \"in\", \"children\" : [ ], \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Indo-European\", \"term\" : \"*h₁én\", \"lang\" : \"ine-pro\" }, { \"children\" : [ ], \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Indo-European\", \"term\" : \"*-tér\", \"status\" : \"missing\", \"lang\" : \"ine-pro\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"From\", \"is_group\" : true, \"keyword\" : \"affix\" } ], \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Indo-European\", \"term\" : \"*h₁entér\", \"lang\" : \"ine-pro\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"Inherited from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang_name\" : \"Proto-Italic\", \"term\" : \"*n̥ter\", \"lang\" : \"itc-pro\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"Inherited from\", \"keyword\" : \"inherited\" } ], \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang_name\" : \"Latin\", \"term\" : \"inter\", \"lang\" : \"la\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"From\", \"keyword\" : \"from\" } ], \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang_name\" : \"Latin\", \"term\" : \"inter-\", \"lang\" : \"la\" } ], \"keyword\" : \"bor\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"English\", \"term\" : \"inter-\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"en\" }, { \"children\" : [ ], \"lang_name\" : \"English\", \"term\" : \"glacial\", \"status\" : \"missing\", \"lang\" : \"en\" } ], \"keyword_label\" : \"From\", \"is_group\" : true, \"keyword\" : \"affix\" } ], \"lang_name\" : \"English\", \"term\" : \"interglacial\", \"status\" : \"ok\", \"lang\" : \"en\" }\" data-lang=\"en\" data-title=\"interglacial\">\nFrom inter- + glacial.",
      "name": "ety"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Etymology tree\nProto-Indo-European *h₁én\nProto-Indo-European *-tér\nProto-Indo-European *h₁n̥tér\nProto-Italic *n̥ter\nLatin inter\nLatin inter-bor.\nEnglish inter-\nEnglish glacial\nEnglish interglacial\nFrom inter- + glacial.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "interglacials",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "interglacial (plural interglacials)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "interstadial"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              178,
              190
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2019, Peter Vincent, The Biogeography of the British Isles: An Introduction, page 209:",
          "text": "The climatic recession which produced Britain's last glaciers came rapidly to an end about 10,000 bp, as temperatures rose during the end of the protocratic phase of the present interglacial.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The relatively warm period between glacial periods."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɪʃəl"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "kw",
      "lang": "Cornish",
      "lang_code": "kw",
      "sense": "relatively warm period between glacial periods",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "prys ynterrewlivek"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "lang_code": "da",
      "sense": "relatively warm period between glacial periods",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "mellemistid"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "relatively warm period between glacial periods",
      "word": "interglasiaali"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "relatively warm period between glacial periods",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Warmzeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "relatively warm period between glacial periods",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Interglazial"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "lang_code": "hu",
      "sense": "relatively warm period between glacial periods",
      "word": "interglaciális"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "lang_code": "ga",
      "sense": "relatively warm period between glacial periods",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tréimhse idiroighreach"
    }
  ],
  "word": "interglacial"
}

Download raw JSONL data for interglacial meaning in English (10.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.