# enter
## English
### Alternative forms

* entre (archaic, before circa 1700)

### Etymology

From Middle English entren, from Old French entrer, from Latin intrō (“enter”, verb), from intrā (“inside”). Has been spelled as "enter" for several centuries even in the United Kingdom, although British English and the English of many Commonwealth Countries (e.g. Australia, Canada) retain the "re" ending for many words such as centre, fibre, spectre, theatre, calibre, sombre, lustre, and litre.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈɛntə(ɹ)/
* (US) IPA: /ˈɛntɚ/, [ˈɛɾ̃ɚ]
** (pin–pen merger, nt-flapping) IPA: [ˈɪɾ̃ɚ]
* Audio (UK); “to enter”:(file)
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)
* Homophone: inner (pin–pen merger, nt-flapping)
* Hyphenation: en‧ter

### Verb

enter (third-person singular simple present enters, present participle entering, simple past and past participle entered)
* (intransitive) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
    You should knock before you enter, unless you want to see me naked.
** 1555, John Proctor, The historie of Wyates rebellion, with the order and maner of resisting the same, …, page 86:[…] you can fynde in youre heartes to assaulte her with rebellion, or in any wise [ways] suffer any one eyvil motion to enter into your thoughtes against her?
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 3:5:Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
** 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. […] Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.
** 2024, NTSB, Intersection Crash Between Passenger Car and Combination Vehicle, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, March 22, 2022:We determined that the car driver’s transportation of multiple teen passengers, limited driving experience, and likely impairment from effects of cannabis at the time of the crash adversely affected her judgment of the danger of entering the intersection in front of the approaching combination vehicle.
* (transitive) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.
    to enter a knife into a piece of wood
    to enter a boy at college, a horse for a race, etc.
* (figuratively) To go or come into (a state or profession).
    My twelve-year-old son will be entering his teens next year.
    She had planned to enter the legal profession.
** 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. … But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining".
* (transitive) To type (something) into a computer; to input.
    Enter your user name and password.
* (transitive) To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.
** 2003, A. Mukherjee, M. Hanif, Financial Accounting, →ISBN, page 27:Each amount entered in the debit column of the journal is posted by entering it on the credit side/column of an account in the ledger.
* (intransitive, law) To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.
** 2003 February 4, The President of the United States, “NOTIFICATION TO ENTER INTO A FREE TRADE AGREEMENT WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF SINGAPORE”, in U.S. Government Printing Office, retrieved 2013-9-9:I am pleased to notify the Congress of my intent to enter into a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the Government of Singapore.
* (law, intransitive) To become effective; to come into effect.
** 2005, United Nations, Dispositions Législatives Et Réglementaires Nationales Relatives À la Prévention Et À L'élimination Du Terrorisme International, →ISBN, page 215:This Act shall enter into force on 01 March 1998.
* (law) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
* (transitive, law) To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in proper from and order
    to enter a writ, appearance, rule, or judgment
* To make report of (a vessel or its cargo) at the custom house; to submit a statement of (imported goods), with the original invoices, to the proper customs officer for estimating the duties. See entry.
* (transitive, US, dated, historical) To file, or register with the land office, the required particulars concerning (a quantity of public land) in order to entitle a person to a right of preemption.
** 1887, United States General Land Office, Annual Report of the Commissioner of General Land Office, US Government Printing Office, page 82:Under existing laws governing the qualifications of an alien to enter 160 acres or more of the public domain he is only required to file his declaration of intent to become a citizen.
* To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.).
    entered according to act of Congress
* (transitive, obsolete) To initiate; to introduce favourably.
** c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):This sword but shown to Caesar, with this tidings, / Shall enter me with him.

#### Conjugation

$^†$ Archaic or obsolete.

#### Synonyms

* go in, ingo
* come in

#### Antonyms

* (intransitive) exit

#### Derived terms

* abandon hope all ye who enter here
* all hope abandon ye who enter here
* break and enter
* breaking and entering
* do not enter
* enterable
* enterer
* entering tone
* enter into
* enter into the equation
* enter key
* enter on the boards
* enter the chat
* enter the equation
* enter the lists
* enter the picture
* enter the scene
* entrance
* it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God
* misenter
* reenter
* unentered

#### Translations

Afrikaans: ingaan
Akkadian: 𒆭 (erēbu, KU$_4$)
Albanian: hyn , hi (sq)(gheg)
Arabic: دَخَلَ (ar) (daḵala)
Egyptian Arabic: دخل (daḵal)
Hijazi Arabic: دَخَل (daḵal), خَشّ (ḵašš)
Moroccan Arabic: دخل (dkhel)
South Levantine Arabic: دَخَل (daḵal), فات (fāt), خَشّ (ḵašš)
Armenian: մտնել (hy) (mtnel)
Aromanian: ãntru
Assamese: সোমা (xüma)
Asturian: entrar (ast)
Azerbaijani: girmək (az), daxil olmaq
Bashkir: инеү (inew), кереү (kerew)
Basque: sartu
Belarusian: (on foot) увахо́дзіць impf (uvaxódzicʹ), ўвахо́дзіць impf (ŭvaxódzicʹ), увайсці́ pf (uvajscí), ўвайсці́ pf (ŭvajscí); (by vehicle) уязджа́ць impf (ujazdžácʹ), уе́хаць pf (ujéxacʹ)
Bengali: ঢোকা (bn) (ḍhōka), সামানো (bn) (śamanō), প্রবেশ করা (probeś kora)
Breton: antreal (br)
Bulgarian: вли́зам (bg) impf (vlízam), вля́за pf (vljáza)
Burmese: ဝင် (my) (wang)
Buryat: орохо (oroxo)
Catalan: entrar (ca)
Cebuano: sulod
Central Tarahumara: bakí
Chinese:
Cantonese: 入嚟 (jap$^6$ lei$^4$; jap$^6$ lai$^4$)
Hokkien: 入去 (zh-min-nan) (li̍p-khì / li̍p-khìr / ji̍p-khì / li̍p-khù / gi̍p-khì / lia̍k-khì), 入來 / 入来 (zh-min-nan) (ji̍p-lâi / li̍p-lâi / lia̍k-lâi)
Mandarin: 進入 / 进入 (zh) (jìnrù), 進 / 进 (zh) (jìn)
Chukchi: рэк (rėk)
Corsican: entra (co)
Czech: vstupovat (cs) impf, vstoupit (cs) pf
Dalmatian: entrur
Danish: gå ind, gå ind i, indgå i
Dutch: binnengaan (nl)
Early Assamese: পেষ্ (peṣ)
Egyptian: (ꜥq)
Esperanto: eniri
Estonian: sisenema, sisse astuma
Even: и- (i-)
Evenki: и- (i-)
Faroese: fara inn
Fijian: curu (fj)
Finnish: astua (fi), tulla (fi), astua sisään
French: entrer (fr)
Friulian: jentrâ
Galician: entrar (gl)
Georgian: შემოსავლა (šemosavla), შესვლა (šesvla)
German: reingehen, hineingehen (de), hereingehen (de), eintreten (de), betreten (de), reinkommen, hereinkommen (de)
Gothic: 𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌲𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌰𐌽 (inngaggan), 𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌰𐍄𐌲𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌰𐌽 (innatgaggan)
Greek: μπαίνω (el) (baíno)
Ancient: εἰσέρχομαι (eisérkhomai), εἰσβαίνω (eisbaínō)
Guaraní: ike
Gujarati: પેસવું (pesvũ), પ્રવેશવું (praveśvũ)
Hawaiian: komo
Hebrew: נִכְנַס (he) (nikhnás)
Hiligaynon: abáy
Hindi: प्रवेश करना (praveś karnā), भीतर जाना (bhītar jānā)
Hungarian: bemegy (hu), belép (hu), bejön (hu), behatol (hu)
Hunsrik: ningehn
Icelandic: ganga inn, koma inn
Ido: enirar (io)
Indonesian: masuk (id)
Italian: entrare (it)
Japanese: 入る (ja) (はいる, hairu)
Javanese: mlebu (jv)
Kalmyk: орх (orx)
Kapampangan: lungub
Kazakh: кіру (kıru)
Khakas: кірерге (kìrerge)
Khmer: ចូល (km) (jool)
Kituba: kota, kukota
Komi-Permyak: пырны (pyrny)
Korean: 들어가다 (ko) (deureogada), 들어오다 (ko) (deureooda) (come in), 들다 (ko) (deulda)
Kyrgyz: кирүү (ky) (kirüü)
Lao: ເຂົ້າ (lo) (khao)
Latin: ineō, intrō (la), ingredior, introeo, invado, imbitō
Latvian: ienākt, ieiet
Lingala: kɔ́tɔ
Lithuanian: įeiti
Lü: ᦃᧁᧉ (ẋaw²)
Macedonian: влезе pf (vleze), влегува impf (vleguva)
Madurese: lebbu
Malay: masuk (ms)
Maltese: daħal
Maore Comorian: ungia
Maori: uru, tomo
Marathi: प्रवेश करणे (praveś karṇe)
Mirandese: antrar
Mongolian: орох (mn) (orox), элсэх (mn) (elsex)
Nanai: и- (i-)
Navajo: yah iighááh
Neapolitan: entrà, trase
Nepali: पस्नु (pasnu)
Norwegian: komme inn
Occitan: intrar (oc)
Odia: please add this translation if you can
Old English: infaran
Old Occitan: intrar
Papiamentu: drenta
Pashto: please add this translation if you can
Persian: درآمدن (fa) (dar-âmadan), وارد شدن (fa) (vâred šodan)
Polish: (on foot) wchodzić (pl) impf, wejść (pl) pf
Portuguese: entrar (pt)
Quechua: yaykuy
Romanian: a intra (ro)
Romansch: entrar, entrer, antrar
Russian: (on foot) входи́ть (ru) impf (vxodítʹ), войти́ (ru) pf (vojtí), заходи́ть (ru) impf (zaxodítʹ), зайти́ (ru) pf (zajtí), (by vehicle) въезжа́ть (ru) impf (vʺjezžátʹ), въе́хать (ru) pf (vʺjéxatʹ)
Sanskrit: विशति (viśati)
Sardinian: intràe, intrai, intrare
Scottish Gaelic: rach a-steach, thig a-steach, inntrig, gabh a-steach
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ући pf, улазити impf
Roman: ući pf, ulaziti (sh) impf
Shan: ၶဝ်ႈ (shn) (khāo)
Sicilian: tràsiri (scn)
Sinhalese: ඇතුල් කරනවා (ætul karanawā)
Slovak: vstúpiť pf, vkročiť, vojsť
Slovene: vstopati impf, vstopiti (sl) pf
Somali: gelid
Spanish: entrar (es)
Swahili: kuingia
Swedish: inträda (sv)
Tagalog: pumasok
Tajik: дохил шудан (doxil šudan), даромадан (tg) (daromadan)
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Tatar: керергә (tt) (kerergä)
Telugu: ప్రవేశించు (te) (pravēśiñcu)
Ternate: wosa
Tetum: tama
Thai: เข้า (th) (kâo), เข้ามา (kâo-maa)
Tocharian B: yäp-
Turkish: girmek (tr)
Turkmen: girmek
Tuvan: кирер (kirer)
Udmurt: пырыны (pyryny)
Ukrainian: (on foot) входи́ти (uk) impf (vxodýty), уходи́ти impf (uxodýty), ввійти́ pf (vvijtý), увійти́ pf (uvijtý)
Urdu: داخل کریں (dāxil karnā)
Uzbek: kirmoq (uz)
Vietnamese: đi vào (vi), vô (vi), vào (vi)
Volapük: please add this translation if you can
Walloon: moussî (wa), intrer (wa)
Welsh: cofnodi (cy)
Yakut: киир (kiir)
Yiddish: אַרײַנגיין (arayngeyn)
Yucatec Maya: okol
Yup'ik: iter-
Zhuang: haeuj :

### Noun

enter (plural enters)
* (computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“the computer key”)
* (computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“a stroke of the computer key”)

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ Alexander M[ansfield] Burrill (1850–1851) “ENTER”, in A New Law Dictionary and Glossary: […], volume (please specify |part= or |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: John S. Voorhies, […], →OCLC.
* “enter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* entre, rente, terne, treen

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish entero (displacing older Catalan forms such as entegre), from Latin integrum. Compare Occitan entièr, French entier, Spanish entero. Doublet of íntegre, a later borrowing from Latin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ənˈter]
* IPA: (Valencia) [enˈter]

### Adjective

enter (feminine entera, masculine plural enters, feminine plural enteres)
* entire, whole, complete
    Synonym: sencer

#### Derived terms

* enterament
* nombre enter

### Noun

enter m (plural enters)
* whole number, integer
    Synonyms: nombre enter, nombre sencer
* a complete lottery ticket (made up of ten dècims)

#### Related terms

* entregar

### Further reading

* “enter” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “enter” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Finnish
### Etymology

From English Enter.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈent(ː)er/, [ˈe̞n̪t̪(ː)e̞r]
* Rhymes: -enter
* Hyphenation: en‧ter

### Noun

enter
* Enter (computer key)

#### Declension

Possessive forms of enter (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
enterini
enterini
accusative
nom.
enterini
enterini
gen.
enterini
genitive
enterini
enterieni entereideni entereitteni
partitive
enteriäni
entereitäni enterejäni
inessive
enterissäni
entereissäni
elative
enteristäni
entereistäni
illative
enteriini
entereihini
adessive
enterilläni
entereilläni
ablative
enteriltäni
entereiltäni
allative
enterilleni
entereilleni
essive
enterinäni
entereinäni
translative
enterikseni
entereikseni
abessive
enterittäni
entereittäni
instructive
comitative
—entereineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
enterisi
enterisi
accusative
nom.
enterisi
enterisi
gen.
enterisi
genitive
enterisi
enteriesi entereidesi entereittesi
partitive
enteriäsi
entereitäsi enterejäsi
inessive
enterissäsi
entereissäsi
elative
enteristäsi
entereistäsi
illative
enteriisi
entereihisi
adessive
enterilläsi
entereilläsi
ablative
enteriltäsi
entereiltäsi
allative
enterillesi
entereillesi
essive
enterinäsi
entereinäsi
translative
enteriksesi
entereiksesi
abessive
enterittäsi
entereittäsi
instructive
comitative
—entereinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
enterimme
enterimme
accusative
nom.
enterimme
enterimme
gen.
enterimme
genitive
enterimme
enteriemme entereidemme entereittemme
partitive
enteriämme
entereitämme enterejämme
inessive
enterissämme
entereissämme
elative
enteristämme
entereistämme
illative
enteriimme
entereihimme
adessive
enterillämme
entereillämme
ablative
enteriltämme
entereiltämme
allative
enterillemme
entereillemme
essive
enterinämme
entereinämme
translative
enteriksemme
entereiksemme
abessive
enterittämme
entereittämme
instructive
comitative
—entereinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
enterinne
enterinne
accusative
nom.
enterinne
enterinne
gen.
enterinne
genitive
enterinne
enterienne entereidenne entereittenne
partitive
enteriänne
entereitänne enterejänne
inessive
enterissänne
entereissänne
elative
enteristänne
entereistänne
illative
enteriinne
entereihinne
adessive
enterillänne
entereillänne
ablative
enteriltänne
entereiltänne
allative
enterillenne
entereillenne
essive
enterinänne
entereinänne
translative
enteriksenne
entereiksenne
abessive
enterittänne
entereittänne
instructive
comitative
—entereinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
enterinsä
enterinsä
accusative
nom.
enterinsä
enterinsä
gen.
enterinsä
genitive
enterinsä
enteriensä entereidensä entereittensä
partitive
enteriään enteriänsä
entereitään enterejään entereitänsä enterejänsä
inessive
enterissään enterissänsä
entereissään entereissänsä
elative
enteristään enteristänsä
entereistään entereistänsä
illative
enteriinsä
entereihinsä
adessive
enterillään enterillänsä
entereillään entereillänsä
ablative
enteriltään enteriltänsä
entereiltään entereiltänsä
allative
enterilleen enterillensä
entereilleen entereillensä
essive
enterinään enterinänsä
entereinään entereinänsä
translative
enterikseen enteriksensä
entereikseen entereiksensä
abessive
enterittään enterittänsä
entereittään entereittänsä
instructive
comitative
—entereineen entereinensä :

#### Derived terms

* enter-näppäin

## French
### Etymology

From a Vulgar Latin *imptāre, contraction of *imputāre (“to graft”) (unrelated to Latin imputō (“to reckon, attribute”)), from inpotus (attested in Salic Law), from Ancient Greek ἔμφυτος (émphutos, “planted”). The Greek word may have actually reached Gaul through traders at the Mediterranean coastal colonies before the Roman conquest.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɑ̃.te/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

enter
* (agriculture) to graft
* to implant

#### Conjugation
### Further reading

* “enter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* entre, entré
* rente, renté
* terne

## Gaulish
### Alternative forms

* entar

### Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *enter (“between”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁enter (“between”). Cognates include Celtiberian entara (“between”), Old Irish eter (“between”) (Irish idir (“between, both”)), Latin inter (“between”), Sanskrit अन्तर् (antár, “between, within, into”), Oscan 𐌀𐌍𐌕𐌄𐌓 (anter, “between”), and Old High German untar (“between”).

### Preposition

enter
* between, among

### References

* Xavier Delamarre, Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental, published 2003, →ISBN, page 163.
* Ranko Matasović, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic, published 2009, →ISBN, page 117.

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

enter
* inflection of entern:
** first-person singular present
** singular imperative

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɛn.tɛr/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛntɛr
* Syllabification: en‧ter

### Noun

enter m inan
* (computing) Enter (key on a computer keyboard)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* enter in Polish dictionaries at PWN