What is entertainment for one group of individuals may be considered work or even cruelty by another. Yet, many familiar forms of entertainment have demonstrated a remarkable capacity to cross over various media and endure for a long time. The word “entertainment” traces back to the Medieval Latin intertenere, which is formed from the prefix inter meaning “inside” and the Latin root ten, from the Indo-European root ten, to hold or stretch.
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