To place a dead body in a grave or tomb; to bury with ceremony. Can also mean to confine or imprison.
From Old French 'enterrer', from Latin 'in terra' meaning 'in earth'. The word literally means 'to put into the earth' and has maintained this core meaning since entering English in the 14th century.
While 'inter' sounds clinical and formal, it's actually one of our most visceral words - literally meaning 'into the earth'. The prefix 'inter-' usually means 'between', but here it derives from a completely different Latin root, showing how etymology can surprise us.
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