Entertaiment |
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The word entertaiment is derived from the Medieval Latin intertenere, which contains the prefix inter- meaning “inside” and the suffix tenere based on an Indo-European root ten that means to stretch or extend. The word carries the sense of something that is extended and elongated, and can be applied to ideas, activities, or even physical forms.