How to spell interdisciplinary

hear itin·ter·dis·ci·pli·nar·y/,ɪntər'dɪsəplə,nɛri/adjectiveAcademic

What it means: Involving multiple fields of study.

In a sentence: The school has an interdisciplinary project where we learn about science and art together.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as interdisiplinary or interdiscplinary.

Same family: disciplines, interdisciplinarity, multidisciplinary, cross-disciplinary, transdisciplinary. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Interdisciplinary comes from the Latin prefix "inter-" meaning "between" and "disciplina," meaning teaching or branch of knowledge. It became popular in the 20th century as universities started encouraging work that crossed traditional subject boundaries.

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