Etymology

Learned borrowing from LatinCategory:English terms borrowed from Latin#ANTECategory:English learned borrowings from Latin#ANTECategory:English terms derived from Latin#ANTE ante (“before”). Doublet of andCategory:English doublets#ANTE.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈænti/Category:English 2-syllable words#ANTECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ANTE
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈænti/, [ˈɛənti]Category:English 2-syllable words#ANTECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ANTE

  • Audio (Southern California):

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    Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#ANTE
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈænti/Category:English 2-syllable words#ANTECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ANTE
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈɛnti/Category:English 2-syllable words#ANTECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ANTE
• Rhymes: -æntiCategory:Rhymes:English/ænti#ANTECategory:Rhymes:English/ænti/2 syllables#ANTE
• Homophones: anti, anty, auntieCategory:English terms with homophones#ANTE (one pronunciation)

Noun

ante (plural antes)Category:English lemmas#ANTECategory:English nouns#ANTECategory:English countable nouns#ANTECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ANTECategory:Pages with entries#ANTECategory:Pages with 21 entries#ANTE

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. …”

     Category:English terms with quotations#ANTE

   • 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.

     Category:English terms with quotations#ANTE

2. (pokerCategory:en:Poker#ANTE) In poker and other games, the contribution made by all players to the pot, often before dealing all the cards.

Verb

ante (third-person singular simple present antes, present participle anteing, simple past and past participle anted or anteed)Category:English lemmas#ANTECategory:English verbs#ANTECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ANTECategory:Pages with entries#ANTECategory:Pages with 21 entries#ANTE

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.

See also

• status quo ante bellum

References

• “ante”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• tane, ta'en, anet, etna, NEAT, Aten, Neat, neta, Etan, Nate, neat, Etna, Tean, Tena

Verb

anteCategory:Akatek lemmas#ANTECategory:Akatek verbs#ANTECategory:Akatek entries with incorrect language header#ANTECategory:Pages with entries#ANTECategory:Pages with 21 entries#ANTE

1. to cure

Alternative forms

• énte

Etymology

From LatinCategory:Asturian terms inherited from Latin#ANTECategory:Asturian terms derived from Latin#ANTE ante.

Preposition

anteCategory:Asturian lemmas#ANTECategory:Asturian prepositions#ANTECategory:Asturian entries with incorrect language header#ANTECategory:Pages with entries#ANTECategory:Pages with 21 entries#ANTE

1. before, in front of

   Synonym: delantre

Etymology

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

Noun

ante ?Category:Cimbrian lemmas#ANTECategory:Cimbrian nouns#ANTECategory:Cimbrian entries with incorrect language header#ANTECategory:Requests for gender in Cimbrian entries#ANTECategory:Pages with entries#ANTECategory:Pages with 21 entries#ANTE

1. (Sette ComuniCategory:Sette Comuni Cimbrian#ANTE) sorrow

   's tüumar ante ― sorry (literally, “it does me sorrow”)Category:Cimbrian terms with usage examples#ANTE

   'S tüumar ante habandich gamach spaitan.

   I'm sorry to have kept you waiting.

   Category:Cimbrian terms with usage examples#ANTE

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

Etymology

Borrowed from FrenchCategory:Dutch terms borrowed from French#ANTECategory:Dutch terms derived from French#ANTE ante.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑn.tə/Category:Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation#ANTE

• Audio:

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  Category:Dutch terms with audio pronunciation#ANTE
• Hyphenation: an‧te
• Rhymes: -ɑntəCategory:Rhymes:Dutch/ɑntə#ANTE

Noun

ante f (plural anten, no diminutive)Category:Dutch lemmas#ANTECategory:Dutch nouns#ANTECategory:Dutch nouns with plural in -en#ANTECategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#ANTECategory:Dutch feminine nouns#ANTECategory:Pages with entries#ANTECategory:Pages with 21 entries#ANTE

1. (architectureCategory:nl:Architecture#ANTE) anta, corner pilaster

Noun

anteCategory:Eastern Arrernte lemmas#ANTECategory:Eastern Arrernte nouns#ANTECategory:Eastern Arrernte entries with incorrect language header#ANTECategory:Pages with entries#ANTECategory:Pages with 21 entries#ANTE

1. and (from English)

References

• 2020. Eastern and Central Arrernte Learners' List, compiled by Veronica Perrule Dobson and John Henderson. Alice Springs, NT.

Etymology

Borrowed from LatinCategory:French terms borrowed from Latin#ANTECategory:French terms derived from Latin#ANTE antae.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃t/Category:French 1-syllable words#ANTECategory:French terms with IPA pronunciation#ANTE

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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  Category:French terms with audio pronunciation#ANTE

• Audio (France (Somain)):

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  Category:French terms with audio pronunciation#ANTE

Noun

ante f (plural antes)Category:French lemmas#ANTECategory:French nouns#ANTECategory:French countable nouns#ANTECategory:French entries with incorrect language header#ANTECategory:French feminine nouns#ANTECategory:Pages with entries#ANTECategory:Pages with 21 entries#ANTE

1. anta

Further reading

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

Preposition

anteCategory:Galician lemmas#ANTECategory:Galician prepositions#ANTECategory:Galician entries with incorrect language header#ANTECategory:Pages with entries#ANTECategory:Pages with 21 entries#ANTE

1. before, in front of

   Synonym: perante

Noun

ante m (plural antes)Category:Galician lemmas#ANTECategory:Galician nouns#ANTECategory:Galician countable nouns#ANTECategory:Galician entries with incorrect language header#ANTECategory:Galician masculine nouns#ANTECategory:Pages with entries#ANTECategory:Pages with 21 entries#ANTE

1. elk (US), moose (UK) (Alces alces)

   Synonym: alce

Etymology

Borrowed from ItalianCategory:Ido terms borrowed from Italian#ANTECategory:Ido terms derived from Italian#ANTE ante, SpanishCategory:Ido terms borrowed from Spanish#ANTECategory:Ido terms derived from Spanish#ANTE ante, and to some extent EnglishCategory:Ido terms borrowed from English#ANTECategory:Ido terms derived from English#ANTE anterior, all ultimately from LatinCategory:Ido terms derived from Latin#ANTE ante. (Compare Esperanto antaŭ (“before”, time and space).)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈante/Category:Ido terms with IPA pronunciation#ANTE

Preposition

anteCategory:Ido lemmas#ANTECategory:Ido prepositions#ANTECategory:Ido entries with incorrect language header#ANTECategory:Pages with entries#ANTECategory:Pages with 21 entries#ANTE

1. before (of time)

   Antonym: pos

   Ante parolar on devas pensar. ― Before talking one should think.Category:Ido terms with usage examples#ANTE

Preposition

anteCategory:Interlingua lemmas#ANTECategory:Interlingua prepositions#ANTECategory:Interlingua entries with incorrect language header#ANTECategory:Pages with entries#ANTECategory:Pages with 21 entries#ANTE

1. ago

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈan.te/Category:Italian 2-syllable words#ANTECategory:Italian terms with IPA pronunciation#ANTE
• Rhymes: -anteCategory:Rhymes:Italian/ante#ANTECategory:Rhymes:Italian/ante/2 syllables#ANTE
• Hyphenation: àn‧te

Etymology 1

From LatinCategory:Italian terms inherited from Latin#ANTECategory:Italian terms derived from Latin#ANTE ante, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Italian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#ANTECategory:Italian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#ANTE *h₂énti (“opposite, in front of”).

Etymology 2

Form of anta.

Anagrams

• Etna, nate, tane

Alternative forms

• (preposition): a. (abbreviation)
• in ante
• ab ante (Late Latin)

Etymology

From Proto-ItalicCategory:Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic#ANTECategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic#ANTE *anti, from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#ANTE *h₂énti, locative singular of the root noun *h₂ent- (“front, front side”).

Cognates include Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “opposite, facing”), Sanskrit अन्ति (ánti)Category:Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#ANTE, 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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈan.tɛ]Category:Latin 2-syllable words#ANTECategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#ANTE
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈan.te]Category:Latin 2-syllable words#ANTECategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#ANTE

Preposition

anteCategory:Latin lemmas#ANTECategory:Latin prepositions#ANTECategory:Latin accusative prepositions#ANTECategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#ANTECategory:Pages with entries#ANTECategory:Pages with 21 entries#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
         • c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate Ecclus..7.5:

           non te justifices ante Deum

           do not pass yourself off as righteous in the presence of God

           Category:Latin terms with quotations#ANTE
   2. of time. before

      ante omnia ― first of allCategory:Latin terms with collocations#ANTE

      ante litteram (literally, “before the letter”)Category:Latin usage examples with omitted translation#ANTECategory:Latin terms with collocations#ANTE

   3. of importance. before, more than
      • c. 41 CE, Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 7.7.10:

        necessitas ante rationem est

        necessity is more important than reason
        necessity goes before reason

        Category:Latin terms with quotations#ANTE

Adverb

ante (comparative anterius)Category:Latin lemmas#ANTECategory:Latin adverbs#ANTECategory:Latin irregular adverbs#ANTECategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#ANTECategory:Pages with entries#ANTECategory:Pages with 21 entries#ANTE

1. before, in front, forwards (of space)
2. before, previously (of time)

   ante diem V

   4th day before ("fifth" counting inclusively)

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, 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)
    

  Category:Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
• 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 (2003-2026), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Etymology

From Old FrenchCategory:Middle French terms inherited from Old French#ANTECategory:Middle French terms derived from Old French#ANTE antain

Noun

ante f (plural antes)Category:Middle French lemmas#ANTECategory:Middle French nouns#ANTECategory:Middle French entries with incorrect language header#ANTECategory:Middle French feminine nouns#ANTECategory:Pages with entries#ANTECategory:Pages with 21 entries#ANTECategory:Middle French countable nouns#ANTE

1. auntie; aunt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːntə/Category:Norwegian Bokmål terms with IPA pronunciation#ANTE

• Audio:

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  Category:Norwegian Bokmål terms with audio pronunciation#ANTE
• Rhymes: -ɑːntəCategory:Rhymes:Norwegian Bokmål/ɑːntə#ANTE
• Hyphenation: an‧te

Verb

anteCategory:Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms#ANTECategory:Norwegian Bokmål verb forms#ANTECategory:Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header#ANTECategory:Pages with entries#ANTECategory:Pages with 21 entries#ANTE

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

Anagrams

• etan, nate, tane

Noun

ante fCategory:Old French non-lemma forms#ANTECategory:Old French noun forms#ANTECategory:Old French entries with incorrect language header#ANTECategory:Pages with entries#ANTECategory:Pages with 21 entries#ANTE

1. nominative singular of antain

Alternative forms

Noun

anteCategory:Pali non-lemma forms#ANTECategory:Pali noun forms#ANTECategory:Pali noun forms in Latin script#ANTECategory:Pali entries with incorrect language header#ANTECategory:Pages with entries#ANTECategory:Pages with 21 entries#ANTE

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

Adjective

anteCategory:Pali non-lemma forms#ANTECategory:Pali adjective forms#ANTECategory:Pali adjective forms in Latin script#ANTECategory:Pali entries with incorrect language header#ANTECategory:Pages with entries#ANTECategory:Pages with 21 entries#ANTE

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

Etymology

Inherited from LatinCategory:Portuguese terms inherited from Latin#ANTECategory:Portuguese terms derived from Latin#ANTE ante.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɐ̃tʃi, (Portugal) -ɐ̃tɨCategory:Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐ̃tʃi#ANTECategory:Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐ̃tʃi/2 syllables#ANTECategory:Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐ̃tɨ#ANTECategory:Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐ̃tɨ/2 syllables#ANTE
• Hyphenation: an‧te

Preposition

anteCategory:Portuguese lemmas#ANTECategory:Portuguese prepositions#ANTECategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#ANTECategory:Pages with entries#ANTECategory:Pages with 21 entries#ANTE

1. (datedCategory:Portuguese dated terms#ANTE) before (in front of in space)

   Synonym: perante

2. (datedCategory:Portuguese dated terms#ANTE) in front of (at or near the front part of)
3. (datedCategory:Portuguese dated terms#ANTE) in front of (in the presence of someone)

Adverb

ante (not comparable)Category:Portuguese lemmas#ANTECategory:Portuguese adverbs#ANTECategory:Portuguese uncomparable adverbs#ANTECategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#ANTECategory:Pages with entries#ANTECategory:Pages with 21 entries#ANTE

1. obsolete form of antesCategory:Portuguese obsolete forms#ANTE

Further reading

• “ante”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “ante”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈante/ [ˈãn̪.t̪e]Category:Spanish 2-syllable words#ANTECategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#ANTE
• Rhymes: -anteCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/ante#ANTECategory:Rhymes:Spanish/ante/2 syllables#ANTE
• Syllabification: an‧te

Etymology 1

Inherited from LatinCategory:Spanish terms inherited from Latin#ANTECategory:Spanish terms derived from Latin#ANTE ante.

Etymology 2

From Andalusian ArabicCategory:Spanish terms derived from Andalusian Arabic#ANTE لمط (lámṭ).

Further reading

• “ante”, 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

Verb

anteCategory:Swedish non-lemma forms#ANTECategory:Swedish verb forms#ANTECategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#ANTECategory:Pages with entries#ANTECategory:Pages with 21 entries#ANTE

1. (colloquialCategory:Swedish colloquialisms#ANTE, dialectalCategory:Swedish dialectal terms#ANTE) past of ana

   Synonym: anade

Anagrams

• Aten, enat, etan

Etymology

Borrowed from EnglishCategory:Tagalog terms borrowed from English#ANTECategory:Tagalog terms derived from English#ANTE ante, from LatinCategory:Tagalog terms derived from Latin#ANTE ante.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔante/ [ˈʔan̪.t̪ɛ]Category:Tagalog 2-syllable words#ANTECategory:Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation#ANTE
• Rhymes: -anteCategory:Rhymes:Tagalog/ante#ANTECategory:Rhymes:Tagalog/ante/2 syllables#ANTE
• Syllabification: an‧teCategory:Tagalog terms with malumay pronunciation#ANTE

Noun

ante (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜈ᜔ᜆᜒ)Category:Tagalog lemmas#ANTECategory:Tagalog nouns#ANTECategory:Tagalog terms with missing Baybayin script entries#ANTECategory:Tagalog terms with Baybayin script#ANTECategory:Tagalog entries with incorrect language header#ANTECategory:Pages with entries#ANTECategory:Pages with 21 entries#ANTE

1. (pokerCategory:tl:Poker#ANTE) ante (initial contribution in games)
2. (financeCategory:tl:Finance#ANTE) advance payment

   Synonyms: paunang-bayad, antisipo, adelanto

Further reading

• “ante”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018