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.

2. temporary

   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.

• caretaker (UK)
• provisional

interim (plural interims)

1. A transitional or temporary period between other events.

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

• between-time

• Termini, mintier, termini

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.te.rim/, [ˈɪn.tɛ.rĩ]

interim (not comparable)

1. meanwhile, in the meantime

• Angevin: adementiers, ademintiers
• English: interim
• Italian: mentre (< dum interim)
• Old French: dementre, mentre, dementieres, adementiers (< dum interim)
• Old Portuguese: domentres, dementres, mentres (< dum interim)
  • Portuguese: mentes
• Spanish: mientras (< dum 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, 1883–1887)
• interim in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette