# entire
## English
### Alternative forms

* intire (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle English entere, enter, borrowed from Anglo-Norman entier, from Latin integrum, accusative of integer (“whole”), from Proto-Italic *əntagros (“untouched”). Doublet of entier and integer.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɪnˈtaɪə/, /ənˈtaɪə/
* (General American) IPA: /ɪnˈtaɪɚ/, /ənˈtaɪɚ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)
* Hyphenation: en‧tire

### Adjective

entire (not comparable)
* (sometimes postpositive) Whole; complete.
    We had the entire building to ourselves for the evening.
** 1624, John Donne, “17. Meditation”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, pages 415–416:No man is an Iland, intire of it ſelfe; euery man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; […]
* (botany) Having a smooth margin without any indentation.
* (botany) Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
* (complex analysis, of a complex function) Complex-differentiable on all of ℂ.
* (of a male animal) Not gelded.
** 2018, Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay, page 423:On top of that, he was entire, which meant his bloodline could carry on.
* Morally whole; pure; sheer.
** c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:See now, whether pure fear and entire cowardice doth not make thee / wrong this virtuous gentlewoman to close with us.
** 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:No man had ever a heart more entire to the king.
* Internal; interior.
** 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet VI”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC:Depp is the wound, that dints the parts entire

#### Derived terms

* entire function
* entirely
* entireness
* entirety
* go the entire animal
* go the entire swine
* subentire
* unentire

#### Related terms

* integrate
* integrity

#### Translations
### Noun

entire (countable and uncountable, plural entires)
* (now rare) The whole of something; the entirety.
** 1876, WE Gladstone, Homeric Synchronism:In the entire of the Poems we never hear of a merchant ship of the Greeks.
** 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 19:‘Then is the City Magistrate the entire of your family now?’
* An uncastrated horse; a stallion.
** 2005, James Meek, The People's Act of Love, Canongate, published 2006, page 124:He asked why Hijaz was an entire. You know what an entire is, do you not, Anna? A stallion which has not been castrated.
* (philately) A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted.
* Porter or stout as delivered from the brewery.

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* entier, in-tree, nerite, triene