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From the Medieval Latin intertenere (to hold inside). The prefix inter means “inside,” and the suffix tenere is related to the Indo-European root ten, meaning to stretch or extend.
Entertaiment is part of our collection of Collocations. See the full list of terms here. This article was originally published on December 20, 2014. It has been updated for current usage.