## Examples
- I'll finish the report later.
- My roommate arrived first; I arrived later.
- The Victorian era is a later period than the Elizabethan era.

## Synonyms
- hereafter
- someday
- subsequently

## Antonyms
- earlier
- once

## Derived Forms
- neverthelater

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: later
- Root: lator
- Root: lætra

## Etymology
* Adverb: From Middle English later, latere, from Old English lator, equivalent to late + -er. * Adjective: From Middle English later, latere, from Old English lætra, equivalent to late + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian leeter (“later”), West Frisian letter (“later”), Dutch later (“later”), German Low German later (“later”).

## AI Etymology
Later has separate etymological analyses: Adverb: From Middle English later, latere, from Old English lator, equivalent to late + -er.; Adjective: From Middle English later, latere, from Old English lætra, equivalent to late + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian leeter (“later”), West Frisian letter (“later”), Dutch later (“later”), German Low German later (“later”). The analysis is mainly morphological: the modern adverbial form is built from the named base and affix.

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