anterior - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)
- anteriour (obsolete)
Borrowed from Latin anterior (“that is before, foremost”).
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /anˈtɪə.ɹi.ə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ænˈtɪɹ.i.ɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
anterior (not comparable)
- (anatomy) Nearer the forward end, especially in the front of the body; nearer the head or forepart of an animal.
- 2013, Carole Hollins, Questions and Answers for Dental Nurses, page 44:
Transillumination of anterior teeth, using the composite curing light placed labially to shine through the tooth and be viewed using the mouth mirror, shows up any cavities as dark interproximal shadows.
- (botany) (of a part of a flower or leaf) Situated further away from the mainstem.
- (phonetics) Pronounced with an obstruction located in front of the palato-alveolar region of the mouth, e.g. b, p, d, t.
- 2013, Carole Hollins, Questions and Answers for Dental Nurses, page 44:
- (formal) Coming before or earlier in time or development, prior to, preceding.
- 1859, John Stuart Mill, On Liberty:
anterior to the time when mankind have become capable of being improved by free and equal discussion.
- 1859, John Stuart Mill, On Liberty:
See also Thesaurus:former
(human anatomy direction adjectives) anterior, distal, dorsal, lateral, medial, posterior, proximal, ventral (Category: en:Medicine) [edit]
(dentistry location adjectives) anterior, apical, apicocoronal, axial, buccal, buccoapical, buccocervical, buccogingival, buccolabial, buccolingual, bucco-occlusal, buccopalatal, cervical, coronal, coronoapical, distal, distoapical, distobuccal, distocervical, distocoronal, distofacial, distogingival, distoincisal, distolingual, disto-occlusal, distoclusal, distocclusal, distopalatal, facial, gingival, incisal, incisocervical, inferior, labial, lingual, linguobuccal, linguo-occlusal, mandibular, maxillary, mesial, mesioapical, mesiobuccal, mesiocervical, mesiocoronal, mesiodistal, mesiofacial, mesioincisal, mesiogingival, mesiolingual, mesio-occlusal, mesioclusal, mesiocclusal, mesiopalatal, occlusal, palatal, posterior, proximal, superior, vestibular (Category: en:Dentistry) [edit]
anatomy: nearer the forward end
- Arabic: أَمَامِيّ (ʔamāmiyy)
- Bulgarian: преден (bg) (preden)
- Catalan: anterior (ca)
- Chinese:
Mandarin: 前部 (zh) (qiánbù) - Esperanto: antaŭa
- Finnish: etummainen (fi), etu- (fi), anteriorinen (fi)
- French: antérieur (fr)
- Galician: anterior (gl)
- German: frontal (de), vorder (de)
- Greek: πρόσθιος (el) (prósthios)
- Italian: anteriore (it)
- Portuguese: anterior (pt)
- Romanian: anterior (ro)
- Russian: передний (ru) (perednij)
- Spanish: anterior (es)
- Swedish: främre (sv)
- Ukrainian: пере́дній (perédnij)
before or earlier in time
Bulgarian: предшестващ (bg) (predšestvašt)
Esperanto: antaŭa
Finnish: edeltävä (fi), aiempi (fi), aikaisempi (fi), edellinen (fi)
Japanese: 前の (ja) (saki no), 優先する (ja) (yūsen suru), 先行する (ja) (senkō suru), 先んじる (ja) (sakinjiru)
Russian: предше́ствующий (ru) (predšéstvujuščij)
“anterior”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
“anterior”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Borrowed from Latin anteriōrem.
- IPA(key): (Central) [ən.tə.ɾiˈor]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [ən.tə.ɾiˈo]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [an.te.ɾiˈoɾ]
anterior m or f (masculine and feminine plural anteriors)
- previ
- posterior
- anterioritat
- anteriorment
- quasianterior
- “anterior” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “anterior”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “anterior” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “anterior” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
anterior m or f (plural anteriores)
- anterior, previous
Synonyms: precedente, previo
Antonym: posterior - (anatomy) anterior (nearer the forward end)
Antonym: posterior
- anterioridade
- anteriormente
- “anterior”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
anterior (strong nominative masculine singular anteriorer, not comparable)
- (anatomy) anterior
Positive forms of anterior (uncomparable)
Comparative form of lost adjective *anterus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énteros. Related to ante.
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /anˈte.ri.or/, [än̪ˈt̪ɛriɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /anˈte.ri.or/, [än̪ˈt̪ɛːrior]
anterior (neuter anterius); third declension (Late Latin)
Third-declension comparative adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | anterior | anterius | anteriōrēs | anteriōra | |
Genitive | anteriōris | anteriōrum | |||
Dative | anteriōrī | anteriōribus | |||
Accusative | anteriōrem | anterius | anteriōrēs | anteriōra | |
Ablative | anteriōre | anteriōribus | |||
Vocative | anterior | anterius | anteriōrēs | anteriōra |
- anterius (adverb)
Descendants
→ Catalan: anterior
→ English: anterior
→ French: antérieur
→ Galician: anterior
→ Italian: anteriore
→ Portuguese: anterior
→ Romanian: anterior
→ Spanish: anterior
“anterior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
anterior in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Borrowed from Latin anteriōrem.
(Brazil) IPA(key): /ɐ̃.te.ɾiˈoʁ/ [ɐ̃.te.ɾɪˈoh], (faster pronunciation) /ɐ̃.teˈɾjoʁ/ [ɐ̃.teˈɾjoh]
(Brazil) IPA(key): /ɐ̃.te.ɾiˈoʁ/ [ɐ̃.te.ɾɪˈoh], (faster pronunciation) /ɐ̃.teˈɾjoʁ/ [ɐ̃.teˈɾjoh]
Hyphenation: an‧te‧ri‧or
anterior m or f (plural anteriores)
- anterioridade
- anteriormente
- “anterior”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Borrowed from Latin anterior and French antérieur.
anterior m or n (feminine singular anterioară, masculine plural anteriori, feminine and neuter plural anterioare)
anterior m or f (masculine and feminine plural anteriores)
- anterior (in time), previous, earlier, former, past
Synonym: previo
Antonym: posterior - anterior (in space)
Synonyms: delantero, frontal
Antonym: posterior
“anterior”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014