interlinear
/ɪntəˈlɪnɪə
/adjective
1Written or printed between the lines of a text: interlinear glosses...
- Each includes the Iban text version, with interlinear glosses, and English translations, supplemented by occasional passages contextualizing the songs.
- Micro-typography deals with letters, the relationship between letter spacing and words, word spacing, lines, interlinear spacing, columns, punctuation, and so forth.
- We give the Greek text, with an interlinear translation as literal as may be to be useful.
1.1(Of a book) having the same text in different languages printed on alternate lines: a Greek-English interlinear New Testament...
- For example, there are interlinear translations into Turkish, Spanish, and Polish - all written in Arabic script.
- For instance, in New Testament research it offers the possibility of transforming the Greek text into an interlinear text with grammatical tags, the lexical form of the word, and a word by word English translation all aligned for interlinear analysis, followed by various translations of the text into English or other languages.
Origin
Late Middle English: from medieval Latin interlinearis, from inter- 'between' + Latin linearis (from linea 'line').
Rhymes
- ethnicism
- ethnicist
- ethnicity
- ethnic minority
- ethno-
- ethnoarchaeological
- ethnoarchaeologist
- ethnoarchaeology
- ethnobiology
- ethnobotanic
- ethnobotanical
- ethnobotanically
- ethnobotanist
- ethnobotany
- ethnocentred
- ethnocentric
- ethnocentrically
- ethnocentricity
- ethnocentrism
- ethnocentrist
- ethnocide
- ethnocultural
- ethnogenesis
- ethnogenic
- ethnogeny