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adverb

intereā

intereā (not comparable)
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Meaning

  1. not comparablemeanwhile, in the meantime
    sed fugit interea fugit inreparabile tempusBut it flees, meanwhile, it flees... irretrievable time.c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgicon 3.284
  2. not comparablenevertheless, notwithstanding

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Interea · Interim

Interea refers to a business of some duration, which takes place in a space of time, as in the mean time; interim, to a momentary business, as in the midst of this. They have the same relation to each other, as a point of time to a space of time. Cic. Quint. 6. Hæc dum Romæ geruntur . . . Quintius interea de agro detruditur; that is, gradually; comp. with Fam. x. 12. Interim ad me venit Manutius noster. Tac. Ann. xi. 32. Non rumor interea, sed undique nuntii incedunt . . . Atque interim Ostiensem viam intrat. (iv. 271.)

intĕr-ĕā, adv.
I. Meanwhile, in the meantime, in the interim (class.): saepe interea mihi senex narrabat, Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 18: interea dies advenit, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 15, § 37: cum interea, Ter. Hec. 3, 4, 7; Cic. Verr. 1, 6, 15: haec dum Romae geruntur, Quintius interea de agro detruditur, id. Quint. 6.— With loci: plus triginta natus annis sum, cum interea loci Numquam quicquam facinus feci pejus quam hodie, Plaut. Men. 3, 1, 1; id. Ps. 1, 3, 32; Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 24; id. Heaut. 2, 3, 16; Pac. ap. Non. 488, 14 (Trag. Rel. p. 71 Rib.).— *
B. (For interdum.) Sometimes, Sil. 7, 395.—
II. Transf., like Engl. meanwhile (approaching the sense of), nevertheless, however (but in class. prose always retaining a reference to time; cf. Krebs, Antibarb. p. 611 sq.), Cic. Fam. 5, 12 fin.; Verg. G. 1, 83: cum interea, Cic. Clu. 30, 82; cf.: tamen interea, Cat. 101, 7.

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What does intereā mean in Latin?
intereā, a adverb, means “meanwhile, in the meantime; nevertheless, notwithstanding”.