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English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ante (“before”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ante (plural antes)

  1. A price or cost, as in up the ante.
    • 1936, Herbert Adams, chapter 2, in A Word of Six Letters‎:
      “… 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:
      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, often before dealing all the cards.

Derived terms

Translations

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Verb

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

Verb

ante

  1. to cure

Asturian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin ante.

Preposition

ante

  1. before, in front of
    Synonym: delantre

Cimbrian

Etymology

Compare Old High German anto (“zeal, anger”), which could have undergone a semantic shift.

Noun

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

  • “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
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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French ante.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑn.tə/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: an‧te
  • Rhymes: -ɑntə

Noun

ante f (plural anten)

  1. (architecture) anta, corner pilaster

Eastern Arrernte

Noun

ante

  1. and (from English)

References

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin antae.

Pronunciation

Noun

ante f (plural antes)

  1. anta

Further reading

Galician

Preposition

ante

  1. before, in front of
    Synonym: perante

Noun

ante m (plural antes)

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

Ido

Etymology

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

Preposition

ante

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

Derived terms

Paronyms

  • avan (“before”, in space)

Interlingua

Preposition

ante

  1. ago

Usage notes

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

Adverb

ante (archaic, regional)

  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 [...]»

Etymology 2

Form of anta.

Noun

ante f

  1. plural of anta

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

    From Proto-Italic *anti, 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.

    The change from PIE ablative to Latin accusative is like the confrontational accusative used with Ancient Greek παρά (pará).

    Pronunciation

    Preposition

    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

    ante (not comparable)

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

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    References

    • “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, 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 (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication

    Middle English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    ante

    1. alternative form of ampte

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    ante

    1. alternative form of aunte

    Middle French

    Etymology

    From Old French antain

    Noun

    ante f (plural antes)

    1. auntie; aunt

    Descendants

    Norwegian Bokmål

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈɑːntə/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Rhymes: -ɑːntə
    • Hyphenation: an‧te

    Verb

    ante

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

    Anagrams

    Old French

    Noun

    ante f

    1. nominative singular of antain

    Pali

    Alternative forms

    Alternative scripts
    • 𑀅𑀦𑁆𑀢𑁂 (Brahmi script)
    • अन्ते (Devanagari script)
    • অন্তে (Bengali script)
    • අන‍්තෙ (Sinhalese script)
    • အန္တေ or ဢၼ္တေ or ဢၼ်တေ (Burmese script)
    • อนฺเต or อันเต (Thai script)
    • ᩋᨶ᩠ᨲᩮ (Tai Tham script)
    • ອນ຺ເຕ or ອັນເຕ (Lao script)
    • អន្តេ (Khmer script)
    • 𑄃𑄚𑄴𑄖𑄬 (Chakma script)

    Noun

    ante

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

    Adjective

    ante

    1. inflection of anta (“extreme; interior”):
      1. locative singular masculine/neuter
      2. accusative plural masculine

    Portuguese

    Etymology

    Inherited from Latin ante.

    Pronunciation

     

    Preposition

    ante

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

    Synonyms

    Adverb

    ante (not comparable)

    1. obsolete form of antes

    Spanish

    Pronunciation

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

    Etymology 1

    Inherited from Latin ante.

    Preposition

    ante

    1. in front of, before
      Tengo que comparecer ante el juez.
      I have to appear before the judge.
      • 2015 July 15, “Capriles propone un plan económico “para terminar el año” en Venezuela”, in El País‎, archived from the original on 18 December 2019:
        Capriles se mostró cauto ante la eventualidad de desmontar el régimen de control de cambios que rige en Venezuela desde 2003, pero al mismo tiempo se dijo partidario de la unificación del tipo de cambio, pues el diferencial actual “ha sido el mayor antro de corrupción del país”.
        (please add an English translation of this quotation)
      • 2023 August 22, Elsa García de Blas, “El Rey encarga a Feijóo una investidura abocada al fracaso”, in El País‎, archived from the original on 22 August 2023:
        Ante la inédita situación en democracia de que dos candidatos se ofrecieran a ser investidos sin tener aún los apoyos suficientes, el Rey Felipe VI ha priorizado la “costumbre” de que se presente primero la lista más votada en las elecciones y ha encargado al líder del PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, que intente una investidura.
        (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    2. against, compared to
      Synonyms: contra, frente a
    Derived terms

    Etymology 2

    From Andalusian Arabic لمط (lámṭ).

    Noun

    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
    Derived terms

    Further reading

    Swedish

    Verb

    ante

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

    Derived terms

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