interea

Latin

Adverb

intereā (not comparable)

  1. meanwhile, in the meantime
    • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 3.284:
      sed fugit interea fugit inreparabile tempus
      But it flees, meanwhile, it flees... irretrievable time.
  2. nevertheless, notwithstanding

Synonyms

  1. interim, dum

References

  • “interea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “interea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “interea”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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