later

• 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”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈleɪtə/
• (US) enPR: lāʹtər, IPA^(key): /ˈleɪtɚ/, [ˈleɪ̯ɾɚ]

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• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)

later

1. comparative form of late: more late

   You came in late yesterday and today you came in even later.

2. Afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).

   My roommate arrived first. I arrived later.

   I arrived later than my roommate.

3. At some unspecified time in the future.

   I wanted to do it now, but I’ll have to do it later.

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

• earlier
• (At some unspecified time in the future): once

• smell ya later, smell you later

later

1. comparative form of late: more late

   Jim was later than John.

2. 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.

3. 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 .

4. At some time in the future.

   The meeting was adjourned to a later date.

• earlier

later

1. (slang) See you later; goodbye.

   Later, dude.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaː.tər/

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• Rhymes: -aːtər

later

1. Comparative form of laat
2. Having to do with or occurring in the future.

• eerder
• vroeger

later

1. later
2. in the future

• eerder

• alert, ratel

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.ter/, [ˈɫ̪ät̪ɛr]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈla.ter/, [ˈläːt̪er]

later m (genitive lateris); third declension

1. brick, tile

Third-declension noun.

• laterīcius
• laterculum
• laterculus

• “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

From French terre.

later

1. land, earth, soil

later

1. present of late

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

later

1. lazy, sluggish

• Swedish: lat

From French terre.

later

1. land, earth, soil

later

1. indefinite plural of lat.

• alert, artel, letar, realt