antipode

See also: Antipode

English

Etymology

Back-formation from antipodes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæn.tɪ.poʊd/

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• Rhymes: -əʊd

Noun

antipode (plural antipodes)

1. Something directly opposite or diametrically opposed.

   Synonym: antipous (rare)

   Hyponym: antithesis (opposite idea)

   • 1704, David Crawford, Love at First Sight: A Comedy‎^[1], London: R. Basset, page 58:

     The very Reverse of a Wit. The Antipode of Sense.

   • 1847, editorial staff, “A Mexican Diligence”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 3, Issue 10, page 74:

     A Mexican diligence is fmilar(sic) to an American post coach or mail stage, and a stranger from the United States, taking his seat in one of them, while all else around him is nearly the antipodes of what he has been accustomed to, feels old sensations revive, as he once more finds something that looks like home.

   • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 167:

     In many ways, Memphis was the antipode of Boston.

2. The place on the diametrically opposite side of the earth from a given point.

Derived terms

• antipodal
• antipodean

Translations

something directly opposite

• Armenian: հակոտնյա (hy) (hakotnya)
• Catalan: antípoda (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 對蹠點 / 对蹠点 (zh) (duìzhídiǎn)

• Esperanto: antipodo
• Finnish: antipodi (fi)
• Georgian: ანტიპოდი (ka) (anṭiṗodi)
• German: Antipode (de) m
• Greek: αντίποδας (el) m (antípodas)
• Japanese: 対蹠 (ja) (taisho), 対極 (ja) (taikyoku), 正反対 (ja) (seihantai), 真逆 (ja) (magyaku)
• Norwegian: diametral motsats c, diametral motsetning c, rak motsats c, rak motsetning c
• Polish: antypody (pl) m pl (only in the plural)
• Portuguese: antípoda (pt) f
• Russian: антипо́д (ru) m (antipód)
• Serbo-Croatian: antipod (sh) m
• Spanish: antípoda (es)
• Swedish: diametral (sv) motsats (sv) c, (maths) antipod (sv) c
• Turkish: antipot
• Zazaki: antipot

Further reading

• antipode on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• “antipode”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• adeption, antidope

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin antipodes, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀντίποδες (antípodes), from ἀντί (antí, “against”) + πόδες (pódes), nominative plural of πούς (poús, “foot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ti.pɔd/

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Noun

antipode m (plural antipodes)

1. (especially in plural) antipode
2. opposite

   deux hommes aux antipodes

   two totally opposite men

Derived terms

• manchot antipode

Further reading

• “antipode”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin antipodes, from Ancient Greek ἀντίποδες (antípodes), from ἀντί (antí, “against”) + πόδες (pódes), nominative plural of πούς (poús, “foot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /anˈti.po.de/
• Rhymes: -ipode
• Hyphenation: an‧tì‧po‧de

Noun

antipode m or f (plural antipodi)

1. antipode

Derived terms

• agli antipodi
• antipode ottico

Further reading

• antipode in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• pedinato, piatendo