different between antecedent vs exemplar

English

Etymology

From Middle English antecedent, borrowed from Old French antecedent, from Latin antec?d?ns (“going before”), from antec?d? (“to precede; excel; surpass”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ant??si?d?nt/

Adjective

antecedent (not comparable)

1. Earlier, either in time or in order.

   an event antecedent to the Biblical Flood

   an antecedent cause

2. Presumptive.

   an antecedent improbability

Derived terms

• antecedently

Related terms

• antecede
• antecedence

Translations

Noun

antecedent (plural antecedents)

1. Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.
2. An ancestor.
   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 3:

     The Boston agent added that this clerk was a young man of wholly unquestioned veracity and reliability, of known antecedents and long with the company.

3. (grammar) A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun.
   • H. W. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage

     [W]hereas it might seem orderly that, as who is appropriated to persons, so that should have been appropriated to things […] the antecedent of that is often personal.

   • One such condition can be formulated in terms of the c-command relation defined in (9) above: the relevant condition is given in (16) below:
     (16) C-COMMAND CONDITION ON ANAPHORS
     An anaphor must have an appropriate c-commanding antecedent

4. (logic) The conditional part of a hypothetical proposition, i.e. ${\displaystyle p\rightarrow q}$, where ${\displaystyle p}$ is the antecedent, and ${\displaystyle q}$ is the consequent.
5. (logic) The first of two subsets of a sequent, consisting of all the sequent's formulae which are valuated as true.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

6. (mathematics) The first term of a ratio, i.e. the term a in the ratio a:b, the other being the consequent.
7. (chiefly in the plural) Previous principles, conduct, history, etc.

Synonyms

• (something which precedes): precedent, precursor
• (an ancestor): ascendant, ascendent, forebear, forefather, forerunner, predecessor, progenitor

Antonyms

• (in logic): consequent, (for sequents) succedent
• (in linguistics): anaphor

Holonyms

• conditional
• See Thesaurus:argument form

Translations

See also

• juxtaposition

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French antecédent, from Latin antec?d?ns (“go before”), from antec?dere (“to go or come before”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

antecedent n (plural antecedenten, diminutive antecedentje n)

1. antecedent (thing that precedes; prior fact, background fact)
2. (linguistics) antecedent (referent of a word, esp. of a pronoun)
3. (logic) antecedent (condition part of a proposition)

Antonyms

• (logic): (consequent)
• (linguistics): (anafoor)

Latin

Verb

antec?dent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of antec?d?

[[Category:ante- +?]]

Romanian

Etymology

From French antécédent, from Latin antecedens.

Adjective

antecedent m or n (feminine singular antecedent?, masculine plural anteceden?i, feminine and neuter plural antecedente)

1. antecedent

Declension

English

Etymology 1

From Old French exemplaire, from Late Latin exemplarium, from Latin exemplum. Doublet of exemplary.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???z?m.pl?/, /?k?z?m.pl?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???z?m.pl??/, /???z?m.pl?/
• Hyphenation: ex?em?plar

Noun

exemplar (plural exemplars)

1. Something fit to be imitated; an ideal, a model.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:model

2. A role model.
3. Something typical or representative of a class; an example.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:exemplar

4. A pattern after which others should be made; an archetype.
5. A well known usage of a scientific theory.
6. A handwritten manuscript used by a scribe to make a handwritten copy; the original copy of what gets multiply reproduced in a copy machine.
7. A copy of a book or piece of writing.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Nicholas Udall to this entry?)

Translations

Etymology 2

From French exemplaire, and its source, Latin exempl?ris.

Adjective

exemplar (comparative more exemplar, superlative most exemplar)

1. (obsolete) Exemplary.

Further reading

• exemplar (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “exemplar”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• exampler

Catalan

Etymology

Latin exemplar

Noun

exemplar m (plural exemplars)

1. copy; edition

Latin

Etymology

Compare of exempl?ris.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ek?sem.plar/, [?k?s??mp??är]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ek?sem.plar/, [???z?mpl?r]

Noun

exemplar n (genitive exempl?ris); third declension

1. model, pattern, example, original or ideal
2. copy

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Synonyms

• (copy): exempl?ris

Derived terms

• exempl?rium

Related terms

• exemplum

Descendants

• Catalan: exemplar
• English: exemplar
• French: exemplaire
• German: Exemplar
• Russian: ?????????? (ekzempljár)
• Portuguese: exemplar
• Spanish: ejemplar

References

• exemplar in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• exemplar in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• exemplar in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• exemplar in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin exemplaris.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /i.?z?.pla?/
• Hyphenation: e?xem?plar

Adjective

exemplar m or f (plural exemplares, comparable)

1. exemplary

Noun

exemplar m (plural exemplares)

1. example, exemplar

Romanian

Etymology

From French exemplaire, from Latin exemplarium.

Noun

exemplar n (plural exemplare)

1. copy

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From Late Latin exemplarium, from Latin exemplum.

Pronunciation

Noun

exemplar n

1. a copy (one of many identical artifacts)

Declension

Related terms

• exemplarframställning