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^(key): /ɪnˈtaɪə/, /ənˈtaɪə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtaɪɚ/, /ənˈtaɪɚ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)

Adjective

entire (not comparable)

1. (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; […]

2. (botany) Having a smooth margin without any indentation.
3. (botany) Consisting of a single piece, as a corolla.
4. (complex analysis, of a complex function) Complex-differentiable on all of ℂ.
5. (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.

6. 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.

7. 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

• integrity
• integrate

Translations

whole

• Albanian: tërë (sq)
• Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: كامل (kāmil)

• Armenian: ամբողջ (hy) (amboġǰ), ողջ (hy) (oġǰ), (colloquial, dialectal) սաղ (hy) (saġ)
• Aromanian: ntreg, ãntreg
• Asturian: enteru (ast)
• Azerbaijani: bütün (az)
• Bashkir: бөтөн (bötön)
• Belarusian: цэ́лы (cély), ўвесь (ŭvjesʹ), по́ўны (póŭny)
• Breton: penn-da-benn (br)
• Bulgarian: цял (bg) (cjal), непокъ́тнат (bg) (nepokǎ́tnat)
• Catalan: enter (ca)
• Cherokee: ᎬᏩᏃᏍᏓ (gvwanosda)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 成 (seng⁴) (followed by a classifier)

  Mandarin: 全部的 (zh) (quánbù de), 整個 / 整个 (zh) (zhěnggè), 完全 (zh) (wánquán)

• Czech: celý (cs) m
• Dutch: geheel (nl), hele (nl), volledig (nl)
• Esperanto: tuta (eo)
• Ewe: blibo
• Finnish: koko (fi), kokonainen (fi)
• French: entier (fr) m, entière (fr) f
• Friulian: intîr
• Galician: enteiro (gl)
• Georgian: მთელი (mteli), მთლიანი (mtliani)
• German: ganz (de), gesamt (de)
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌻𐌻𐍃 (alls), 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐌻𐍃 (fulls)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ὅλος (hólos)

• Hebrew: מלא (he) m (malé)
• Hungarian: teljes (hu), egész (hu)
• Ido: tota (io)
• Ingrian: koko, kokonain
• Italian: intero (it) m, intera (it) f
• Japanese: 全部の (ja) (ぜんぶの, zenbu no), 全体の (ja) (ぜんたいの, zentai no)
• Khiamniungan Naga: thūamthùam
• Korean: 전부의 (ko) (jeonbu-ui)
• Ladin: ntier, intier
• Latin: integer, sollus
• Latvian: viss (lv), vesels
• Neapolitan: sano
• Norman: entchi
• Occitan: entièr (oc)
• Polabian: ganc
• Polish: cały (pl)
• Portuguese: inteiro (pt), todo (pt)
• Romanian: întreg (ro)
• Russian: це́лый (ru) (célyj), весь (ru) (vesʹ), по́лный (ru) (pólnyj)
• Sanskrit: सर्व (sa) (sárva), (Early Vedic) विश्व (sa) (viśva)
• Scottish Gaelic: buileach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цео, цијел

  Roman: ceo (sh), cijel (sh)

• Sicilian: nteru
• Slovak: celý (sk)
• Spanish: entero (es)
• Swedish: hel (sv)
• Telugu: మొత్తము (te) (mottamu)
• Turkish: bütün (tr), tam (tr), yekpare (tr)
• Ukrainian: ці́лий (uk) (cílyj), весь (uk) (vesʹ), по́вний (póvnyj)
• Venetan: intier, intiero, intrego, intriego
• Vietnamese: toàn bộ (vi), toàn thể (vi), hoàn toàn (vi)
• Volapük: lölik (vo)

having a smooth margin

• Finnish: ehytlaitainen (fi)

botany: consisting of a single piece

complex analysis: differentiable everywhere

• Finnish: analyyttinen (fi)

of a male animal not gelded

• Finnish: leikkaamaton (fi)

without mixture or alloy of anything

• Finnish: puhdas (fi), täydellinen (fi), kokonainen (fi), jakamaton (fi), ehjä (fi), eheä (fi)

internal; interior — see internal,‎ interior

Noun

entire (countable and uncountable, plural entires)

1. (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?’

2. 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.

3. (philately) A complete envelope with stamps and all official markings: (prior to the use of envelopes) a page folded and posted.
4. Porter or stout as delivered from the brewery.

Translations

stallion — see stallion

wholly

Anagrams

• entier, in-tree, nerite, triene