inmate
Etymology
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Etymology
From inn + mate, or from in- + mate.
Nouninmate (plural inmates)
- A person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient).
- A person who shares a residence (such as a hotel guest, a lodger, or a student living on campus), or other place.
- 1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book XVI. First Night of Their Arrival in the City.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC ↗, section I, pages 312–313 ↗:
- [T]he inmates of the coach, by numerous hard, painful joltings, and ponderous, dragging trundlings, are suddenly made sensible of some great change in the character of the road.
- French: détenu, détenue, codétenu, codétenue
- German: Insasse, Insassin
- Italian: detenuto, internato, prigioniero
- Portuguese: interno
- Russian: заключённый
- Spanish: internado, interno, preso, recluso, presidiario, reo, convicto, detenido
- French: résident, résidente, pensionnaire
- German: Bewohner, Bewohnerin
- Italian: interno, residente
- Russian: жи́тель
- Spanish: residente
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