interjection

Meaning

Noun

• An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.
• An interruption; something interjected

Related

Similar words

• exclamation
• insertion, interpolation, intercalation

Origin

• From Middle English interjeccioun, from Old French interjection (13th century), from Latin interiectiōnem, accusative singular of interiectiō, perfect passive participle of intericiō, from inter + iaciō. Displaced Old English betwēoxāworpennes, a calque of the Latin.