adelantre

Ladino

Alternative forms

• adelante

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish adelante, adelant (“forward”).

Adverb

adelantre (Hebrew spelling אדילאנטרי)

1. forward; in front; further on; onward; toward the front (ahead)
   • 19th Century, Sa'adi Besalel a-Levi, translated by Isaac Jerusalmi, edited by Aron Rodrigue, Sarah Abrevaya Stein, A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: The Ladino Memoir of Sa'adi Besalel A-Levi‎^[1], Stanford University Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 276:

     I ala onze [6 AM], ala turka, vinyeron en grande akompanyamyento delos askyeres turkos adelantre i detras, kompanyas de soldados de kada nasyon ke fueron dezbarkados delas naves, djunto todos los viche-amirales i komandantes, i ofisyeres de kada nave ke se topo en muestro porto.

     And at eleven [6 A.M.], a great escort of Turkish soldiers came ahead of and behind the Turk; companies of soldiers from every nation disembarked from the ships, together with all the vice-admirals, commanders, and officers from every ship found in our port.

Old Leonese

Adverb

adelantre

1. ahead
   • 1243 "Arriendu que dio’l conceyu de Nora a Nora de los fueros y otros derechos del so alfoz quey concediere al conceyu d’Uviéu’l Rei Don Fernando III" (in Edición filolóxica de los fondos del sieglu XIII del Archivu Municipal d’Uviéu):

     assi los deue leuar daqui adelantre

     so they must be carried from now on

Related terms

• adelantrar

Descendants

• Asturian: alantre
• Leonese: alantre
• Mirandese: alantre