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Learned borrowing from Latin ante (“before”).

ante (plural antes)

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

initial contribution in games

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.

To make an investment in money, effort, or time before knowing one's chances

ante

  1. to cure

From Latin ante.

ante

  1. before, in front of
    Synonym: delantre

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

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.

Borrowed from French ante.

ante f (plural anten)

  1. (architecture) anta, corner pilaster

ante

  1. and (from English)

Borrowed from Latin antae.

ante f (plural antes)

  1. anta

ante

  1. before, in front of
    Synonym: perante

ante m (plural antes)

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

Borrowed from Italian ante, Spanish ante, and to some extent English anterior, all ultimately from Latin ante. (Compare Esperanto antaŭ (“before”, time and space).)

ante

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

ante

  1. ago

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

ante (obsolete)

  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 [...]»

Form of anta.

ante f

  1. plural of anta

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).

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

ante (not comparable)

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

ante

  1. Alternative form of ampte

ante

  1. Alternative form of aunte

From Old French antain

ante f (plural antes)

  1. auntie; aunt

ante

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

ante f

  1. nominative singular of antain

Alternative scripts

ante

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

ante

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

ante (not comparable)

  1. Obsolete form of antes.

Inherited from Latin ante.

ante

  1. in front of, before
    Tengo que comparecer ante el juez.
    I have to appear before the judge.
    • 2023 August 22, Elsa García de Blas, “El Rey encarga a Feijóo una investidura abocada al fracaso”, in El País‎[4]:
      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

From Andalusian Arabic لمط (lámṭ).

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

ante

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