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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ante (“before”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?ænti/
• Rhymes: -ænti
• Homophones: anti, anty, auntie (one pronunciation)

Noun

ante (plural antes)

1. A price or cost, as in up the ante.
2. (poker) In poker and other games, the contribution made by all players to the pot before dealing the cards.

Translations

See also

• penny ante
• up the ante

Verb

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.

Translations

References

• ante in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

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

Asturian

Alternative forms

• énte

Etymology

From Latin ante.

Preposition

ante

1. before, in front of

Cimbrian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

ante ?

1. (Sette Comuni) sorrow

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

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French ante.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n.t?/
• Hyphenation: an?te
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Noun

ante f (plural anten)

1. (architecture) anta, corner pilaster

French

Etymology

From Latin antae

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t/

Noun

ante f (plural antes)

1. anta

Galician

Preposition

ante

1. before, in front of

   Synonym: perante

Related terms

Noun

ante m (plural antes)

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

   Synonym: alce

Ido

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ante/

Preposition

ante

1. before (of time)

   Antonym: pos

Derived terms

Paronyms

• avan (“before”, in space)

Interlingua

Preposition

ante

1. ago

Usage notes

• The English word "ago" is used like a postposition.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?an.te/
• Hyphenation: àn?te

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• anti

Adverb

ante (obsolete)

1. afore, ere; before, earlier
   • 1374, Francesco Petrarca, “Anima, che diverse cose tante”, Il Canzoniere, Andrea Bettini (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 [...]»

Related terms

• ante-
• anteriore
• anzi
• anziano
• avanti

Etymology 2

Form of anta.

Noun

ante f

1. plural of anta

Anagrams

• nate
• tane

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h?énti, locative singular of the root noun *h?ent- (“front, front side”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ???? (antí, “opposite, facing”), Sanskrit ????? (ánti), Old Armenian ??? (?nd), Tocharian B ?nte, and English and.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?an.te/, [?än?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?an.te/, [??n?t??]

Preposition

ante (+ accusative)

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

Adverb

ante (not comparable)

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

   ante diem V

   4th day before ("fifth" counting inclusively)

Synonyms

• (before, in front of): prae, pr?

Antonyms

• (before, in front of): post

Derived terms

Descendants

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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• ante in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
• 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

Middle English

Noun

ante

1. Alternative form of ampte

Middle French

Noun

ante f (plural antes)

1. auntie; aunt

Descendants

• French: tante

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???nt?/
• Rhymes: -??nt?
• Hyphenation: an?te

Verb

ante

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

Anagrams

• etan, nate, tane

Old French

Noun

ante f

1. nominative singular of antain

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

ante

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??nt?i

Preposition

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)

Synonyms

• (in front of): em frente a, na frente de, diante de

Adverb

ante (not comparable)

1. Obsolete form of antes.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ante/, [?ãn?.t?e]

Etymology 1

From Latin ante.

Preposition

ante

1. in front of, before

2. against, compared to

   Synonyms: contra, frente a

Derived terms

• ante la duda
• ante todo

Related terms

• ante-
• antes

Etymology 2

From Andalusian Arabic ???? (lám?).

Noun

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, of the family Tapiridae)

   Synonyms: sachavaca, anta, anteburro, tapir

Derived terms

• anteado
• anteburro

Further reading

• “ante” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Verb

ante

1. (colloquial, dialectal) past tense of ana

See also

• anade
• det ante mig

Anagrams

• Aten, enat, etan

English

Etymology 1

From Old English [Term?], from Latin pont? (“Gaulish flat-bottomed boat, pontoon”), from pons (“bridge”); readopted from Middle Low German punte (“ferry boat”) or Middle Dutch ponte (“ferry boat”) of the same origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

punt (plural punts)

1. (nautical) A pontoon; a narrow shallow boat propelled by a pole.

Translations

Verb

punt (third-person singular simple present punts, present participle punting, simple past and past participle punted)

1. (nautical) To propel a punt or similar craft by means of a pole.

Translations

Etymology 2

Possibly a dialectal variant of bunt. Rugby is the origin of the sports usage of the term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Verb

punt (third-person singular simple present punts, present participle punting, simple past and past participle punted)

1. To dropkick; to kick something a considerable distance.
   • 1975, Barry Targan, Harry Belten and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, page 133:

     At the dump he emptied the station wagon quickly and only once punted a bag of refuse, exploding it like a pinata at a Mexican Christmas.

   • 2019, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, We Cast a Shadow (One World, ?ISBN), page 100:

     He even hated pets—I once saw him punt a cat.

   1. (rugby, American football, Australian Rules football, Gaelic football, soccer, transitive, intransitive) To kick a ball dropped from the hands before it hits the ground. (This puts the ball farther from the goal across which the opposing team is attempting to score, so improves the chances of the team punting.)
   2. (soccer) To kick a bouncing ball far and high.
2. (colloquial, intransitive) To equivocate and delay or put off (answering a question, addressing an issue, etc).
   • 2014, John Prados, The Family Jewels: The CIA, Secrecy, and Presidential Power, University of Texas Press (?ISBN), page 91:

     The briefer reported it had been terminated on orders from Secretary Schlesinger, but attributed this to a sense Shamrock produced little, not to the fact it had been discovered. The NSA briefer punted on whether Fort Meade had been reading Americans' private messages, ...

3. To retreat from one's objective; to abandon an effort one still notionally supports.
4. (colloquial, intransitive) To make the best choice from a set of non-ideal alternatives.
5. (colloquial, transitive) To eject; to kick out of a place.
   • 2001, Roger A. Grimes, Malicious Mobile Code: Virus Protection for Windows (page 236)

     The user is punted from the channel, and must rejoin to gain access.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

punt (plural punts)

1. (rugby, American football, soccer) A kick made by a player who drops the ball and kicks it before it hits the ground.

See also

• drop kick

Translations

Etymology 3

Borrowed from French pointe or Spanish punto (“point”). Doublet of point.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

punt (plural punts)

1. A point in the game of faro.
2. The act of playing at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
3. A bet or wager.
4. (Australia) Gambling, as a pastime, especially betting on horseraces or the dogs. E.g anyone up for a punt on Randwick?(Can we add an example for this sense?)
5. A highly speculative investment or other commitment.
6. A wild guess.
7. An indentation in the base of a wine bottle.
8. (glassblowing) A thin glass rod which is temporarily attached to a larger piece in order to better manipulate the larger piece.

Translations

Verb

punt (third-person singular simple present punts, present participle punting, simple past and past participle punted)

1. To play at basset, baccara, faro, etc.
2. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Britain) To stake against the bank, to back a horse, to gamble or take a chance more generally

   • She heard […] of his punting at gaming tables.
3. (figuratively) To make a highly speculative investment or other commitment, or take a wild guess.

Translations

Related terms

• punter

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Irish punt, from Middle English pund.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

punt (plural punts)

1. The Irish pound, used as the unit of currency of Ireland until it was replaced by the euro in 2002.

Further reading

• Punt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Punt in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin punctum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?punt/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?pun/

Noun

punt m (plural punts)

1. point (specific location)
2. (grammar) dot, point (punctuation mark)
3. (mathematics) point (used for separating the fractional part from the whole part)
4. dot (used in Morse code)

Derived terms

Related terms

• puntuar
• punyir
• punxar

Further reading

• “punt” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?nt/
• Hyphenation: punt
• Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin punctum.

Noun

punt n (plural punten, diminutive puntje n)

1. point
   1. A position, place, or spot
   2. A moment in time
   3. A central idea, argument, or opinion of a discussion or presentation
   4. A tally of worth or score (such as in a game)
   5. A mark, note, or grade (as in for a class)
   6. (geometry) geometric point

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From French point, from Latin punctus.

Noun

punt m (plural punten, diminutive puntje n)

1. The terminal point of something

2. dot

3. full stop, period

4. A pointy slice of a cake, pie or pizza.

   Synonym: taartpunt

Derived terms

Irish

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish punt, from Middle English pund (“pound”), from Old English pund (“a pound, weight”), from Proto-Germanic *pund? (“pound, weight”), from pondus (“weight”), from Proto-Indo-European *pend-, *spend- (“to pull, stretch”).

Alternative forms

• punnt (obsolete)
• púnt (Munster)

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /p?u?n??t??/ (also spelled púnt)
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /p??n??t??/

Noun

punt m (genitive singular puint, nominative plural puint or punta)

1. pound (unit of weight, unit of currency)

Declension

• Alternative plural: punta (Cois Fharraige)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From English pound.

Noun

punt m (genitive singular puint, nominative plural puint)

1. (of enclosure) pound

Declension

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

punt m (genitive singular puint, nominative plural puint)

1. butt(-end)
2. tip (of finger)

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 4

Noun

punt

1. Alternative form of puinn

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??n?t??/

Mutation

Further reading

• "punt" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “punt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “punt” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “punt” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
• “punt” in the National Terminology Database for Irish, Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, DCU and Foras na Gaeilge.

Manx

Etymology

From Middle Irish punt, from Middle English pund (“pound”).

Noun

punt m (genitive singular punt, plural puint)

1. (numismatics, unit of measure) pound

Derived terms

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “punt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old French

Noun

punt m (oblique plural punz or puntz, nominative singular punz or puntz, nominative plural punt)

1. Alternative form of pont

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sutsilvan) pùnt

Etymology

From Latin p?ns, p?ntem (compare Catalan pont, French pont, Italian ponte, Occitan pònt, Portuguese ponte, Spanish puente), from Proto-Indo-European *pont- (“path, road”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [punt]

Noun

punt m (plural punts)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) bridge

Slovene

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /púnt/

Noun

p?nt m inan

1. revolt

Inflection

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from Old English pund.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /p??nt/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /p?nt/

Noun

punt f (plural punnoedd or punnau)

1. (numismatics) pound (sterling)
2. pound (weight)

   Synonym: pwys

Mutation

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “punt”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies