Entertaiment is a broad and varied collection of works that spans many different media, with an impressive ability to cross between them. It is also a rich resource for the study of how themes, images, and structures from the world of entertainment have influenced and been adapted in various forms by other artists. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it in use. The word is derived from the medieval Latin intertenere, a compound of the prefix inter meaning “inside” and the suffix tenere, derived from the Indo-European root ten, meaning to hold or stretch something. It was first used in the English language in the 15th century.