ante

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See also: Ante, Ánte, ānte, ante-, -ante, anté-, and an té

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Learned borrowing from Latin ante (“before”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ante (plural antes)

  1. 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. …”
    • 2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC‎[2]:
      When it came to the more successful contestants, meanwhile, edits of the shows also began to fall heavily on sad backstories – the "sob story", if you will – instilling the idea that singers had to mine trauma from their lives to up the emotional ante, making them seem to be more "worthy" winners.
  2. (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)

  1. To pay the ante in poker. Often used as ante up.
  2. To make an investment in money, effort, or time before knowing one's chances.

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Akatek[edit]

Verb[edit]

ante

  1. to cure

Asturian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin ante.

Preposition[edit]

ante

  1. before, in front of

Cimbrian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun[edit]

ante ?

  1. (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 (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French ante.

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Noun[edit]

ante f (plural anten)

  1. (architecture) anta, corner pilaster

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin antae.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ante f (plural antes)

  1. anta

Further reading[edit]

Galician[edit]

Preposition[edit]

ante

  1. before, in front of
    Synonym: perante

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Noun[edit]

ante m (plural antes)

  1. elk (US), moose (UK) (Alces alces)
    Synonym: alce

Ido[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Italian ante, Spanish ante, and to some extent English anterior, all ultimately from Latin ante. (Compare Esperanto antaŭ (“before”, time and space).)

Pronunciation[edit]

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ante

  1. before (of time)
    Ante parolar on devas pensar. ― Before talking one should think.
    Antonym: pos

Derived terms[edit]

Paronyms[edit]

  • avan (“before”, in space)

Interlingua[edit]

Preposition[edit]

ante

  1. ago

Usage notes[edit]

Italian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈan.te/
  • Rhymes: -ante
  • Hyphenation: àn‧te

Etymology 1[edit]

From Latin ante, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti (“opposite, in front of”).

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Adverb[edit]

ante (obsolete)

  1. afore, ere; before, earlier
    • 1374, Francesco Petrarca, “Anima, che diverse cose tante”, in Il Canzoniere, Andrea Bettini, published 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?
  2. 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 [...]»
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Etymology 2[edit]

Form of anta.

Noun[edit]

ante f

  1. plural of anta

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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.

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Preposition[edit]

ante (+ accusative)

  1. indicates anteriority. before
    Synonyms: prae, prō
    Antonym: post
    1. of space. in front, before, forwards
      1. before, in the presence of, in the sight of
        • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Ecclus. 7:5:
          non te justifices ante Deum
          do not pass yourself off as righteous in the presence of God
    2. of time. before
      ante omnia ― first of all
      ante litteram (literally, “before the letter”)
    3. of importance. before, more than

Adverb[edit]

ante (not comparable)

  1. (of space) before, in front, forwards
  2. (of time) before, previously
    ante diem V
    4th day before ("fifth" counting inclusively)

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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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • ante in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[3], 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)
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 45
  • ante in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2023) Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication

Middle English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Noun[edit]

ante

  1. Alternative form of ampte

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

ante

  1. Alternative form of aunte

Middle French[edit]

Noun[edit]

ante f (plural antes)

  1. auntie; aunt

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Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

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Verb[edit]

ante

  1. simple past of ane
  2. past participle definite singular of ane
  3. past participle plural of ane

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Old French[edit]

Noun[edit]

ante f

  1. nominative singular of antain

Pali[edit]

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Alternative forms

Noun[edit]

ante

  1. inflection of anta (“end”):
    1. locative singular
    2. accusative plural
  2. locative singular of anta (“intestine”)

Portuguese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

 

Preposition[edit]

ante

  1. before (in front of in space)
  2. in front of (at or near the front part of)
  3. in front of (in the presence of someone)

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Adverb[edit]

ante (not comparable)

  1. Obsolete form of antes.

Spanish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈante/ [ˈãn̪.t̪e]
  • Rhymes: -ante
  • Syllabification: an‧te

Etymology 1[edit]

Inherited from Latin ante.

Preposition[edit]

ante

  1. in front of, before
    Tengo que comparecer ante el juez.
    I have to appear before the judge.
  2. against, compared to
    Synonyms: contra, frente a
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Etymology 2[edit]

From Andalusian Arabic لمط‎ (lámṭ).

Noun[edit]

ante m (plural antes, feminine anta, feminine plural antas)

  1. elk
    Synonym: alce
  2. suede
  3. (Mexico) tapir (large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip)
    Synonyms: sachavaca, anta, anteburro, tapir
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Swedish[edit]

Verb[edit]

ante

  1. (colloquial, dialectal) past tense of ana
    Synonym: anade

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