antedatar

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃.te.daˈta(ʁ)/ [ɐ̃.te.daˈta(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃.te.daˈta(ʁ)/ [ɐ̃.te.daˈta(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃.te.daˈta(ɾ)/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃.te.daˈta(ʁ)/ [ɐ̃.te.daˈta(χ)]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃.te.daˈta(ɻ)/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃.tɨ.dɐˈtaɾ/ [ɐ̃.tɨ.ðɐˈtaɾ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃.tɨ.dɐˈtaɾ/ [ɐ̃.tɨ.ðɐˈtaɾ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃.tɨ.dɐˈta.ɾi/ [ɐ̃.tɨ.ðɐˈta.ɾi]

• Hyphenation: an‧te‧da‧tar

Verb

antedatar (first-person singular present antedato, first-person singular preterite antedatei, past participle antedatado)

1. to antedate; to backdate (to assign a date earlier than the actual date)

   Synonym: pré-datar

Conjugation

    Conjugation of antedatar (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)

	Singular			Plural
	First-person (eu)	Second-person (tu)	Third-person (ele / ela / você)	First-person (nós)	Second-person (vós)	Third-person (eles / elas / vocês)
Infinitive
Impersonal	antedatar
Personal	antedatar	antedatares	antedatar	antedatarmos	antedatardes	antedatarem
Gerund
	antedatando
Past participle
Masculine	antedatado			antedatados
Feminine	antedatada			antedatadas
Indicative
Present	antedato	antedatas	antedata	antedatamos	antedatais	antedatam
Imperfect	antedatava	antedatavas	antedatava	antedatávamos	antedatáveis	antedatavam
Preterite	antedatei	antedataste	antedatou	antedatamos1, antedatámos2	antedatastes	antedataram
Pluperfect	antedatara	antedataras	antedatara	antedatáramos	antedatáreis	antedataram
Future	antedatarei	antedatarás	antedatará	antedataremos	antedatareis	antedatarão
Conditional	antedataria	antedatarias	antedataria	antedataríamos	antedataríeis	antedatariam
Subjunctive
Present	antedate	antedates	antedate	antedatemos	antedateis	antedatem
Imperfect	antedatasse	antedatasses	antedatasse	antedatássemos	antedatásseis	antedatassem
Future	antedatar	antedatares	antedatar	antedatarmos	antedatardes	antedatarem
Imperative
Affirmative		antedata	antedate	antedatemos	antedatai	antedatem
Negative (não)		não antedates	não antedate	não antedatemos	não antedateis	não antedatem

¹Brazilian Portuguese.
²European Portuguese.

Further reading

• “antedatar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “antedatar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Spanish

Etymology

From antedata +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /antedaˈtaɾ/ [ãn̪.t̪e.ð̞aˈt̪aɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: an‧te‧da‧tar

Verb

antedatar (first-person singular present antedato, first-person singular preterite antedaté, past participle antedatado)

1. to antedate

Conjugation

    Conjugation of antedatar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			antedatar
gerund			antedatando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		antedatado		antedatada
		plural		antedatados		antedatadas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	antedato	antedatastú antedatásvos	antedata	antedatamos	antedatáis	antedatan
	imperfect	antedataba	antedatabas	antedataba	antedatábamos	antedatabais	antedataban
	preterite	antedaté	antedataste	antedató	antedatamos	antedatasteis	antedataron
	future	antedataré	antedatarás	antedatará	antedataremos	antedataréis	antedatarán
	conditional	antedataría	antedatarías	antedataría	antedataríamos	antedataríais	antedatarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	antedate	antedatestú antedatésvos2	antedate	antedatemos	antedatéis	antedaten
	imperfect (ra)	antedatara	antedataras	antedatara	antedatáramos	antedatarais	antedataran
	imperfect (se)	antedatase	antedatases	antedatase	antedatásemos	antedataseis	antedatasen
	future1	antedatare	antedatares	antedatare	antedatáremos	antedatareis	antedataren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		antedatatú antedatávos	antedate	antedatemos	antedatad	antedaten
	negative		no antedates	no antedate	no antedatemos	no antedatéis	no antedaten

¹Rare; now chiefly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tuteo-form for the present subjunctive.

Related terms

• datar

Further reading

• “antedatar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025