intersero

1.

inter-sĕro, sēvi, sĭtum, 3, v. a. [1. sero], to sow, plant, or set between:

malleolum vitibus,

Col. 3, 16, 1; 3, 9, 7:

pomis intersita,

Lucr. 5, 1377.—

II.

With se or pass., to come between, lie between:

si se vallis interserat,

Pall. Aug. 11, 2:

nullis ossibus spinisve intersitis,

Plin. 9, 15, 17, § 45.—Hence, P. a., intersĭtus, a, um, put between, interposed:

quatuor venti,

Gell. 2, 22: area vacanti intersita, Gall. ap. Gell. 16, 5, 3; App. Mag. p. 301.

2.

inter-sĕro, sĕrŭi, sertum, 3, v. a. [2. sero], to put or place between, to interpose, add:

causam interserens,

Nep. Milt. 4, 1:

oscula mediis verbis,

Ov. M. 10, 559.