• Adverb: FromMiddle Englishlater,latere, fromOld Englishlator, equivalent tolate +‎-er.
• Adjective: FromMiddle Englishlater,latere, fromOld Englishlætra, equivalent tolate +‎-er.

Cognate withSaterland Frisianleeter(“later”),West Frisianletter(“later”),Dutchlater(“later”),German Low Germanlater(“later”).

• (UK)IPA^(key):/ˈleɪtə/
• (US)enPR:lāʹtər,IPA^(key):/ˈleɪtɚ/,[ˈleɪ̯ɾɚ]

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• Rhymes:-eɪtə(ɹ)

later

1. comparative form oflate: morelate

   You came in late yesterday and today you came in evenlater.

2. Afterward in time (used withthan when comparing with another time).

   My roommate arrived first. I arrivedlater.

   I arrivedlater than my roommate.

3. At some unspecified time in the future.

   I wanted to do it now, but I’ll have to do itlater.

• (afterward in time):afterwards,hereafter; see alsoThesaurus:subsequently
• (at some unspecified time in the future):later on,someday; see alsoThesaurus:one day

• earlier
• (antonym(s) of“At some unspecified time in the future”):once

later

1. comparative form oflate: morelate

   Jim waslater than John.

2. Coming afterward in time (used withthan when comparing with another time).

   The Victorian era is alater period of English history than the Elizabethan era.

3. Coming afterward in distance (following an antecedent distance as embedded within an adverbial phrase)

   I felt some leg pain during the first mile of my run and I strained my calf two mileslater.

4. At some time in the future.

   The meeting was adjourned to alater date.

• earlier

later

1. (slang)See you later;goodbye.

   Later, dude.

• Alert,alert,alter,alter-,altre,artel,ratel,taler,telar

• IPA^(key):/ˈlaː.tər/

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• Rhymes:-aːtər

later

1. comparative degree oflaat
2. having to do with or occurring in thefuture

• eerder
• vroeger

later

1. later
2. in thefuture

• eerder

later

1. bye,later

   Synonyms:dag,doei,doeg,houdoe,tabee,vaarwel

• alert,ratel

Possibly fromProto-Indo-European*pleth₂-(“flat”), or from*stelh₃-(“broad”) (in which caselatus(“side, flank”) would be its neuter form).^[1]

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈla.ter/,[ˈɫ̪ät̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈla.ter/,[ˈläːt̪er]

later m (genitivelateris);third declension

1. brick,tile
2. ingot,bar (of precious metal)

Third-declension noun.

• laterīcius
• laterculum
• laterculus

• “later”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “later”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• later inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “later”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “later”, inWilliam Smith et al., editor (1890),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Pokorny, Julius (1959)Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag

FromFrenchterre.

later

1. land,earth,soil

later

1. present oflate

FromOld Norselatr, fromProto-Germanic*lataz.

later

1. lazy,sluggish

• Swedish:lat

later

1. first/second/third-personsingularpresentactiveindicative oflata

FromFrenchterre.

later

1. land,earth,soil

later

1. indefiniteplural oflat

• alert,artel,letar,realt