ante
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin ante (“before”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈænti/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ænti
- Homophones: anti, anty, auntie (one pronunciation)
Noun[edit]
ante (plural antes)
- A price or cost, as in up the ante.
- 1936, Herbert Adams, chapter 2, in A Word of Six Letters[1]:
- “… There was a man who always painted marble seats and another who did nothing but sheep. So a fellow I knew determined only to paint backs. Men's backs, women's backs, girls' backs and boys backs. … his best known bacchante was described by a critic as all back and no ante, but his backs became famous. …”
- (poker) In poker and other games, the contribution made by all players to the pot before dealing the cards.
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Verb[edit]
ante (third-person singular simple present antes, present participle anteing, simple past and past participle anted or anteed)
- To pay the ante in poker. Often used as ante up.
- To make an investment in money, effort, or time before knowing one's chances.
Translations[edit]
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References[edit]
- ante in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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Asturian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Preposition[edit]
ante
Cimbrian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun[edit]
ante ?
- (Sette Comuni) sorrow
- 's tüumar ante ― sorry (literally, “it does me sorrow”)
- 'S tüumar ante habandich gamach spaitan.
- I'm sorry to have kept you waiting.
References[edit]
- “ante” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso, Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo, 1974
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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Noun[edit]
ante f (plural anten)
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ante f (plural antes)
Galician[edit]
Preposition[edit]
ante
Synonyms[edit]
- (before, in front of): perante
Related terms[edit]
Noun[edit]
ante m (plural antes)
- elk (US), moose (UK) (Alces alces)
Synonyms[edit]
- (moose): alce
Ido[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Spanish ante, Italian ante and to some extent English anterior, all ultimately from Latin ante. (Compare Esperanto antaŭ (“before (time and space)”).)
Pronunciation[edit]
Preposition[edit]
ante
- before (of time)
- Ante parolar on devas pensar.
- Before talking one should think.
Derived terms[edit]
Antonyms[edit]
- pos (“after”)
Paronyms[edit]
- avan (“before (in space)”)
Interlingua[edit]
Preposition[edit]
ante
Usage notes[edit]
- The English word "ago" is used like a postposition.
Italian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Latin ante, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti (“opposite, in front of”).
Alternative forms[edit]
Adverb[edit]
ante (obsolete)
- afore, ere; before, earlier
- 1374, Francesco Petrarca, “Anima, che diverse cose tante”, Il Canzoniere, Andrea Bettini (1858), p.220:
- Per quanto non vorreste o poscia od ante ¶ esser giunti al cammin che sì mal tiensi, ¶ per non trovarvi i duo bei lumi accensi, ¶ nè l'orme impresse dell'amate piante?
- How much later, or earlier, do you wish ¶ you had taken the road, that's so hard to follow, ¶ so as not to have met those two bright eyes ¶ or the steps of those beloved feet?
- Per quanto non vorreste o poscia od ante ¶ esser giunti al cammin che sì mal tiensi, ¶ per non trovarvi i duo bei lumi accensi, ¶ nè l'orme impresse dell'amate piante?
- 1374, Francesco Petrarca, “Anima, che diverse cose tante”, Il Canzoniere, Andrea Bettini (1858), p.220:
- rather than, instead (of)
- c. 1362, Buccio di Ranallo, Cronaca aquilana rimata, Forzani (1907), p. 171, “Anima, che diverse cose tante”:
- Lo duca de Duraczo respuse «Ad me despiace; ¶ collo re non vollio briga, ante vi vollio pace [...]»
- The Duke of Durazzo replied «I disagree; ¶ I wish not for trouble, but rather peace, with the king [...]»
- Lo duca de Duraczo respuse «Ad me despiace; ¶ collo re non vollio briga, ante vi vollio pace [...]»
- c. 1362, Buccio di Ranallo, Cronaca aquilana rimata, Forzani (1907), p. 171, “Anima, che diverse cose tante”:
Related terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Form of anta.
Noun[edit]
ante f
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti, locative singular of the root noun *h₂ent- (“front, front side”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “opposite, facing”), Sanskrit अन्ति (ánti), Old Armenian ընդ (ənd), Tocharian B ānte, and English and.
Pronunciation[edit]
Preposition[edit]
ante (+ accusative)
Adverb[edit]
ante (not comparable)
- (of space) before, in front, forwards
- (of time) before, previously
- ante diem V
- 4th day before ("fifth" counting inclusively)
- ante diem V
Synonyms[edit]
Antonyms[edit]
- (before, in front of): post
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Aragonese: antis, enantis, denantis
- Asturian: ante, énte, antes
- Catalan: abans, ans
- Corsican: avanti
- Dalmatian: aninč
- English: antique, anticipate
- Esperanto: antaŭ
- Extremaduran: antis, enantis, endinantis
- Franco-Provençal: avant
- French: avant, ains, ainçais, devant
- Friulian: denant, indenant, indevant
- Galician: ante, antes, denantes, perante, diante, avante
- Gallurese: anti, innanzi
- Italian: ante, anti, avanti, avante, anzi, innanzi, dinnanzi, davanti
- Leonese: antias, anantes, enantes, enantias, aniantes, endenantes
- Ligurian: avànti
- Mirandese: antes, dantes
- Norwegian Bokmål: ante-
- Occitan: abans, avan
- Old French: ains, ainçois, avant
- Old Spanish: ante, enante, antes, enantes
- Piedmontese: ansi, anait, anans, dnans
- Portuguese: ante, antes, avante, diante
- Romanian: înainte
- Romansch: avant
- Sassarese: anti, dananzi
- Spanish: ante, antes, delante
- Venetian: anànsi, vanti
References[edit]
- ante in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879
- ante in Charlton T. Lewis, An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891
- ante in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- ante in Gaffiot, Félix, Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, 1934
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden, Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co., 1894
- to foresee the far distant future: futura or casus futuros (multo ante) prospicere
- twenty years ago: abhinc (ante) viginti annos or viginti his annis
- before daybreak: ante lucem
- something presents itself to my vision: ante oculos aliquid versatur
- to picture a thing to oneself; to imagine: oculis, ante oculos (animo) proponere aliquid
- picture to yourselves the circumstances: ante oculos vestros (not vobis) res gestas proponite
- to fail to see what lies before one: quod ante pedes est or positum est, non videre
- Homer lived many years before the foundation of Rome: Homerus fuit multis annis ante Romam conditam
- to live up to one's reputation: famam ante collectam tueri, conservare
- to bring a thing vividly before the eyes: ante oculos ponere aliquid
- amnesty (ἀμνηρτία): ante actarum (praeteritarum) rerum oblivio or simply oblivio
- to be elected at the age required by law (lex Villia annalis): suo (legitimo) anno creari (opp. ante annum)
- to foresee the far distant future: futura or casus futuros (multo ante) prospicere
- De Vaan, Michiel, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[3], Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2008, →ISBN, page 45
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
ante
- Alternative form of ampte
Middle French[edit]
Noun[edit]
ante f (plural antes)
Descendants[edit]
- French: tante
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
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ante
Anagrams[edit]
Old French[edit]
Noun[edit]
ante f
Pali[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
ante
Portuguese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃ntʃi
Preposition[edit]
ante
- before (in front of in space)
- in front of (at or near the front part of)
- in front of (in the presence of someone)
Synonyms[edit]
- (in front of): em frente a, na frente de, diante de
Adverb[edit]
ante (not comparable)
- Obsolete form of antes.
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Preposition[edit]
ante
- in front of, before
- Tengo que aparecer ante el juez. ― I have to appear before the judge.
- against, compared to
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Etymology 2[edit]
From Andalusian Arabic لمط (lámṭ).
Noun[edit]
ante m (plural antes, feminine anta, feminine plural antas)
- elk
- Synonym: alce
- suede
- (Mexico) tapir (large odd-toed ungulate, with a long prehensile upper lip, of the family Tapiridae)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “ante” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Swedish[edit]
Verb[edit]
ante
- (colloquial, dialectal) past tense of ana
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