Other forms: interned, interns, interning
An intern is the student doing a short first job to learn the profession. A summer intern, take on interns, an unpaid intern.
Unpaid internships filter by who can afford to work for nothing, which is why they are criticised and in some places unlawful. In American medicine an intern is a doctor in the first year after qualifying. As a verb, to intern somebody is to confine them without trial.
1nouninternA student doing a short first job to learn a profession.
“The intern spent the summer answering phones and learning how the newspaper worked.”
2verbconfineTo confine somebody without trial.
“During the war, the government interned thousands of foreign citizens in camps.”
intern is a trainee, or a confining.
French interne comes from Latin internus, inward. The confinement sense and the trainee sense both come from being kept inside.
Latin
internus — within, internal
French
interner
English, today
intern
Built from
From French interner, from interne (“inner, internal”), from Latin internus (“within, internal”), compare Etymology 2.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA