interlinear
/ɪntəˈlɪnɪə
/adjective
1Written or printed between the lines of a text: interlinear glosses...
- Each includes the Iban text version, with interlinear glosses, and English translations, supplemented by occasional passages contextualizing the songs.
- Micro-typography deals with letters, the relationship between letter spacing and words, word spacing, lines, interlinear spacing, columns, punctuation, and so forth.
- We give the Greek text, with an interlinear translation as literal as may be to be useful.
1.1(Of a book) having the same text in different languages printed on alternate lines: a Greek-English interlinear New Testament...
- For example, there are interlinear translations into Turkish, Spanish, and Polish - all written in Arabic script.
- For instance, in New Testament research it offers the possibility of transforming the Greek text into an interlinear text with grammatical tags, the lexical form of the word, and a word by word English translation all aligned for interlinear analysis, followed by various translations of the text into English or other languages.
Origin
Late Middle English: from medieval Latin interlinearis, from inter- 'between' + Latin linearis (from linea 'line').
Rhymes
- Fairfax, Thomas
- Fairfield
- fairfieldite
- fair folk
- fair game
- fair go
- fair green
- fairground
- fair-haired
- fair-handed
- Fair Hebe jug
- fairies' arrow
- fairies' bonnet
- fairies' bonnets
- fairies' caps
- fairies' fingers
- fairies' glove
- fairies' horse
- fairies' petticoats
- fairies' table
- fairies' thimble
- fairies' treasure
- fairies' wealth
- fairily
- fairing