Etymology

From de +‎ avantCategory:Catalan compound terms#DAVANT.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [dəˈβan]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#DAVANT
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [dəˈvant]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#DAVANT
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [daˈvant]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#DAVANT

• Audio (Barcelona):

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  Category:Catalan terms with audio pronunciation#DAVANT

Adverb

davantCategory:Catalan lemmas#DAVANTCategory:Catalan adverbs#DAVANTCategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#DAVANTCategory:Pages with entries#DAVANTCategory:Pages with 3 entries#DAVANT

1. ahead; in front

   Antonym: darrere

Preposition

davantCategory:Catalan lemmas#DAVANTCategory:Catalan prepositions#DAVANTCategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#DAVANTCategory:Pages with entries#DAVANTCategory:Pages with 3 entries#DAVANT

1. ahead of; in front of

Noun

davant m (plural davants)Category:Catalan lemmas#DAVANTCategory:Catalan nouns#DAVANTCategory:Catalan countable nouns#DAVANTCategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#DAVANTCategory:Catalan masculine nouns#DAVANTCategory:Pages with entries#DAVANTCategory:Pages with 3 entries#DAVANT

1. front

Further reading

• “davant”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “davant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “davant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “davant”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Alternative forms

• devant

Etymology

d' +‎ avantCategory:Middle French compound terms#DAVANT

Preposition

davantCategory:Middle French lemmas#DAVANTCategory:Middle French prepositions#DAVANTCategory:Middle French entries with incorrect language header#DAVANTCategory:Pages with entries#DAVANTCategory:Pages with 3 entries#DAVANT

1. before; in front of

Adverb

davantCategory:Middle French lemmas#DAVANTCategory:Middle French adverbs#DAVANTCategory:Middle French entries with incorrect language header#DAVANTCategory:Pages with entries#DAVANTCategory:Pages with 3 entries#DAVANT

1. before; in front of

Etymology

From Latin de ab ante. Cognate with French devant, Catalan davant, Italian davanti.

Pronunciation

• (Limousin) IPA^(key): /davɑ̃/Category:Occitan terms with IPA pronunciation#DAVANT
• IPA^(key): /daˈβan/Category:Occitan terms with IPA pronunciation#DAVANT
• (Niçard) IPA^(key): [da.ˈvãŋ]Category:Occitan terms with IPA pronunciation#DAVANT

• Audio (Béarn):

  (file)

  Category:Occitan terms with audio pronunciation#DAVANT

Preposition

davantCategory:Occitan lemmas#DAVANTCategory:Occitan prepositions#DAVANTCategory:Occitan entries with incorrect language header#DAVANTCategory:Pages with entries#DAVANTCategory:Pages with 3 entries#DAVANT

1. before; in front of

Adverb

davantCategory:Occitan lemmas#DAVANTCategory:Occitan adverbs#DAVANTCategory:Occitan entries with incorrect language header#DAVANTCategory:Pages with entries#DAVANTCategory:Pages with 3 entries#DAVANT

1. before; in front of