Other forms: interjections
An interjection is a word thrown in to show feeling, such as ouch. A sudden interjection, interjections and exclamations, an interjection from the back.
It stands outside the grammar of the sentence, which is what makes it a class of its own, and it is the only part of speech a baby uses correctly from the start. It also means an interruption in a discussion.
1nouninterjectionA word thrown in to show feeling, such as ouch.
“Oops is an interjection we use when we make a small mistake.”
interjection is a word.
Latin interiectio means a throwing between, from inter plus iacere, to throw.
Latin
interiectiōnem
Old French
interjection
Middle English
interjeccioun
English, today
interjection
Built from
From Middle English interjeccioun, from Old French interjection (13th century), from Latin interiectiōnem, accusative singular of interiectiō (“throwing or placing between; interjection”), perfect passive participle of intericiō (“throw or place between”), from inter (“between”) + iaciō (“throw”). Displaced Old English betwēoxāworpennes literally “between-thrown-out-ness”, a calque of the Latin.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA