anti-

See also: anti and Anti

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-, “against”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æntiː/
• IPA^(key): /ænti/, /æntaɪ/

Prefix

anti-

1. Against, hostile to.

   antiabortion

2. Contrasting with the norm.

   antihero

3. Opposite of, reverse.

   anticlockwise

4. Physically opposite: applied to mountain ranges.

   Anti-Lebanon, Anti-Taurus, Anti-Atlas

5. Counteracting, neutralizing.

   antibacterial

6. (particle physics) Related to antiparticles.

   antimatter, antiatom

7. (immunology) That reacts with immunoglobins found in the specified animal.

   antirabbit, antihorse

Usage notes

• Anti- should not be confused with the prefix ante- of Latin (not Greek) origin meaning “before”. (However, anti- does exist as a variant spelling of ante- in some borrowed words, such as anticipate and antipasto, but this spelling cannot be used to coin English words.)
• Anti- sometimes becomes ant- before words beginning in a vowel, as does ante-.

  antacid

Antonyms

• (against, hostile to): pro-

Derived terms

English terms prefixed with anti-

Translations

against, hostile to

• Arabic: ضِدّ (ḍidd), نَقِيض (naqīḍ), مُضَادّ (muḍādd)
• Catalan: anti- (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 反- (zh) (fǎn-), 抗 (zh) (kàng), 非 (zh) (fēi), 反對／反对 (zh) (fǎnduì), 反对 (zh) (fǎnduì)

• Czech: anti-
• Dutch: anti- (nl)
• Esperanto: kontraŭ-
• Estonian: anti- (et)
• Finnish: anti- (fi), vasta- (fi), epä- (fi)
• French: anti- (fr)
• Galician: anti-
• German: gegen- (de), anti- (de)
• Greek: αντι- (el) (anti-)
• Hindi: प्रति- (prati-)
• Hungarian: ellen- (hu), -ellenes (hu), elleni (hu), anti- (hu)
• Ido: anti-
• Irish: anta-
• Italian: anti- (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 反- (ja) (はん-, han-), 非 (ja) (ひ, hi), 逆 (ja) (ぎゃく, gyaku), 反対 (ja) (はんたい, hantai)
• Korean: 안티 (anti), 반 (ko) (ban-) (反 (ko))
• Latvian: pret-, anti-
• Malay: anti-
• Maori: ātete
• Middle Persian: 𐭩𐭥𐭲 (ǰud-)
• Persian: آنتی (fa) (ânti-), پادـ (pād-)
• Polish: anty- (pl), przeciw- (pl)
• Portuguese: anti- (pt)
• Romanian: anti- (ro), contra- (ro)
• Russian: про́тиво- (prótivo-), противо- (protivo-), а́нти- (ru) (ánti-), анти- (ru) (anti-)
• Spanish: anti- (es), contra-
• Swedish: anti- (sv)
• Tamil: எதிர் (ta) (etir)
• Vietnamese: chống (vi)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Armenian: ^{(please verify)} հակա- (haka-)
• Czech: ^{(please verify)} proti-
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} anti- (no)

See also

• anti
• contra-
• counter-
• ob-

Anagrams

• NAIT, TINA, Tani, Tian, Tina, ain't, aniṭ, nait, tain, tian, tina

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Catalan

Prefix

anti-

1. anti

Derived terms

Catalan terms prefixed with anti-

Further reading

• “anti-” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “anti-”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “anti-” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈantɪ]

Prefix

anti-

1. anti-

Synonyms

• proti-

Derived terms

Czech terms prefixed with anti-

Further reading

• Template:R:Slovnik afixu

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Danish

Prefix

anti-

1. anti-

Derived terms

Danish terms prefixed with anti-

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Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑn.ti/

• Audio

  (file)

Prefix

anti-

1. anti-

Derived terms

Dutch terms prefixed with anti-

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Finnish

Prefix

anti-

1. anti-

Derived terms

Finnish terms prefixed with anti-

Anagrams

• nait, tain, tina

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ti/

Prefix

anti-

1. anti-

Derived terms

French terms prefixed with anti-

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Galician

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-, “against”).

Prefix

anti-

1. anti-

Derived terms

Galician terms prefixed with anti-

Further reading

• “anti-”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

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German

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-, “against”), influenced by Latin borrowings from Greek beginning with anti- (like Antichristus) and German borrowings from Latin or Greek

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Prefix

anti-

1. anti-

Derived terms

German terms prefixed with anti-

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Hungarian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒnti]
• Hyphenation: an‧ti

Prefix

anti-

1. anti-

Derived terms

Hungarian terms prefixed with anti-

See also

• Appendix:Hungarian prefixes

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Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English anti-, French anti-, German anti-, Italian anti-, Spanish anti-, Russian анти- (anti-), all ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈan.ti/

Prefix

anti-

1. anti-, contra-, counter- (for use mainly in scientific terms)

   ‎anti- + ‎toxino (“toxin”) → ‎antitoxino (“antitoxin”)

Synonyms

• kontre-

Derived terms

Ido terms prefixed with anti-

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Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin ante (“before”)

Prefix

anti-

1. anti-
2. ante-

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-, “against”).

Prefix

anti-

1. anti-

Derived terms

Italian terms prefixed with anti-

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”).

Prefix

anti-

1. anti-

Derived terms

• anti-aldring

References

• “anti-” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Bokmål terms prefixed with anti-

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”).

Prefix

anti-

1. anti-

Derived terms

• anti-aldring

References

• “anti-” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk terms prefixed with anti-

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɐ̃ti/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɐ̃tʃi/, IPA^(key): /ˈɐ̃tʃ/

Prefix

anti-

1. anti-

Derived terms

Portuguese terms prefixed with anti-

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Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”).

Prefix

anti-

1. anti-; against, opposite, protecting against

Derived terms

Spanish terms prefixed with anti-

• anti

Further reading

• “anti-”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Swedish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”).

Prefix

anti-

1. anti-; against, opposite, protecting against

Derived terms

Swedish terms prefixed with anti-

Anagrams

• Tina, inat, inta, tian, tina