# later
## English
### Etymology

* Adverb: From Middle English later, latere, from Old English lator, equivalent to late +‎ -er.
* Adjective: From Middle English later, latere, from Old English lætra, equivalent to late +‎ -er.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian leeter (“later”), West Frisian letter (“later”), Dutch later (“later”), German Low German later (“later”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈleɪtə/
* (US) enPR: lāʹtər, IPA: /ˈleɪtɚ/, [ˈleɪ̯ɾɚ]
** Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

### Adverb

later
* comparative form of late: more late
    You came in late yesterday and today you came in even later.
* Afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).
    My roommate arrived first. I arrived later.
    I arrived later than my roommate.
* At some unspecified time in the future.
    I wanted to do it now, but I’ll have to do it later.

#### Synonyms

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

#### Antonyms

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

#### Derived terms

* catch you later
* I kill you later
* no later than
* see you later alligator
* shoot first and ask questions later
* smell ya later, smell you later
* sooner rather than later
* sooner than later
* to be named later

#### Translations
### Adjective

later
* comparative form of late: more late
    Jim was later than John.
* Coming afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).
    The Victorian era is a later period of English history than the Elizabethan era.
* 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 miles later.
* At some time in the future.
    The meeting was adjourned to a later date.

#### Antonyms

* earlier

#### Translations
### Interjection

later
* (slang) See you later; goodbye.
    Later, dude.

#### Derived terms

* later days
* later on
* laterward
* laterwards
* save for later
* sooner or later

#### Translations
### Anagrams

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

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlaː.tər/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aːtər

### Adjective

later
* comparative degree of laat
* having to do with or occurring in the future

#### Antonyms

* eerder
* vroeger

### Adverb

later
* later
* in the future

#### Antonyms

* eerder

### Interjection

later
* bye, later
    Synonyms: dag, doei, doeg, houdoe, tabee, vaarwel

### Anagrams

* alert, ratel

## Latin
### Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”), or from *stelh₃- (“broad”) (in which case latus (“side, flank”) would be its neuter form).

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

later m (genitive lateris); third declension
* brick, tile
* ingot, bar (of precious metal)

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* laterīcius
* laterculum
* laterculus

### References

* “later”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “later”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* later in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “later”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “later”, in William 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
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 329

## Mauritian Creole
### Etymology

From French terre.

### Noun

later
* land, earth, soil

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

later
* present of late

## Old Swedish
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse latr, from Proto-Germanic *lataz.

#### Adjective

later
* lazy, sluggish

##### Descendants

* Swedish: lat

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

later
* first/second/third-person singular present active indicative of lata

## Seychellois Creole
### Etymology

From French terre.

### Noun

later
* land, earth, soil

## Swedish
### Noun

later
* indefinite plural of lat

### Anagrams

* alert, artel, letar, realt