ante
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin ante (“before”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ante (plural antes)
- A price or cost, as in up the ante.
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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. …”
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- (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
Anagrams[edit]
Asturian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Preposition[edit]
ante
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
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)
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Ante parolar on devas pensar.
- Before talking one should think.
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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]
References[edit]
- ante in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ante in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ante in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- ante in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- 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 (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 45
Middle French[edit]
Noun[edit]
ante f (plural antes)
Descendants[edit]
- French: tante
Old French[edit]
Noun[edit]
ante f
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.
- Tengo que aparecer ante el juez.
Etymology 2[edit]
From dante
Noun[edit]
ante m (plural antes)
- suede
- elk
- (Mexico) tapir (large odd-toed ungulate, with a long prehensile upper lip, of the family Tapiridae)
Synonyms[edit]
Swedish[edit]
Verb[edit]
ante
- (colloquial, dialectal) past tense of ana
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