entire

English

From Middle English entere, enter, borrowed from Anglo-Norman entier, from Latin integrum, accusative of integer, from in- (“not”) + tangō (“touch”). Doublet of integer.

entire (not comparable)

(sometimes postpositive) Whole; complete.
We had the entire building to ourselves for the evening.
- 1624, John Donne, “17. Meditation”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: Printed by A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, OCLC 55189476, lines 2–3; republished as Geoffrey Keynes, John Sparrow, editor, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions: […], Cambridge: At the University Press, 1923, OCLC 459265555, page 98:
  No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]
(botany) Having a smooth margin without any indentation.
(botany) Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
(complex analysis, of a complex function) Complex-differentiable on all of ℂ.
(of a male animal) Not gelded.
Without mixture or alloy of anything; unqualified; morally whole; pure; faithful.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
  pure fear and entire cowardice
- (Can we date this quote?) Clarendon
  No man had ever a heart more entire to the king.
Internal; interior.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

whole

Armenian: ամբողջ (hy) (ambołǰ), ողջ (hy) (ołǰ), (colloquial, dialectal) սաղ (hy) (sał)
Aromanian: ntreg, ãntreg
Asturian: enteru (ast)
Bashkir: бөтөн (bötön)
Belarusian: цэ́лы (cély), ўвесь (ŭvjesʹ), по́ўны (póŭny)
Bulgarian: цял (bg) (cjal), непокъ́тнат (bg) (nepokǎ́tnat)
Catalan: enter (ca)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 成 (seng⁴) (followed by a classifier)

Mandarin: 全部的 (zh) (quánbù de), 整個 (zh), 整个 (zh) (zhěnggè), 完全 (zh) (wánquán)
Czech: celý (cs) m
Ewe: blibo
Finnish: koko (fi), kokonainen (fi)
French: entier (fr) m, entière (fr) f
Friulian: intîr
Galician: enteiro
Georgian: მთელი (mteli), მთლიანი (mtliani)
German: ganz (de)
Gothic: 𐌰𐌻𐌻𐍃 (alls), 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐌻𐍃 (fulls)
Greek:
Ancient Greek: ὅλος (hólos)
Hebrew: מלא‎ (he) m (malé)
Ido: tota (io)
Italian: intero (it) m, intera (it) f
Japanese: 全部の (ja) (ぜんぶの, zenbu no), 全体の (ja) (ぜんたいの, zentai no)

having a smooth margin

botany: consisting of a single piece

complex analysis: differentiable everywhere

of a male animal not gelded

without mixture or alloy of anything

internal; interior — see internal,‎ interior

entire (countable and uncountable, plural entires)

(now rare) The whole of something; the entirety.
- 1876, WE Gladstone, Homeric Synchronism:
  In the entire of the Poems we never hear of a merchant ship of the Greeks.
- 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 19:
  ‘Then is the City Magistrate the entire of your family now?’
An uncastrated horse; a stallion.
- 2005, James Meek, The People's Act of Love (Canongate 2006, p. 124)
  He asked why Hijaz was an entire. You know what an entire is, do you not, Anna? A stallion which has not been castrated.
(philately) A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted.
Porter or stout as delivered from the brewery.

stallion — see stallion

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