different between antecedent vs prototype

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

From French prototype or Late Latin prototypon, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (pr?tótupos, “original; prototype”), from ?????- (pr?to-, “prefix meaning ‘first’”) (from ?????? (prôtos, “first; earliest”)) + ?????? (túpos, “blow, pressing; sort, type”) (from ????? (túpt?, “to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- (“to push; to stick”)). The word is analysable as proto- +? -type.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p???t?t??p/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?o?t??ta?p/, /-??-/
• Hyphenation: pro?to?type

Noun

prototype (plural prototypes)

1. An original form or object which is a basis for other forms or objects (particularly manufactured items), or for its generalizations and models. [from late 16th c.]
2. An early sample or model built to test a concept or process.
3. (computing) A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters, but none of the body or actual code.
4. (semantics) An instance of a category or a concept that combines its most representative attributes.
5. (motor racing) A type of race car, a racing sports car not based on a production car. A 4-wheeled cockpit-seating car built especially for racing on sports car circuits, that does not use the silhouette related to a consumer road car.

Synonyms

• (basis for other forms or objects): see Thesaurus:exemplar
• (motorsport): racing prototype, sports prototype, prototype racecar

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• antetype
• first article

Verb

prototype (third-person singular simple present prototypes, present participle prototyping, simple past and past participle prototyped)

1. (transitive) To create a prototype of.

Translations

References

Further reading

• prototype on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pr?totypus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ?????????? (pr?tótupos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.t?.tip/

Noun

prototype m (plural prototypes)

1. prototype

Derived terms

• prototypique

Further reading

• “prototype” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• prototyp

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????- (pr?to-) + ????? (túpos)

Noun

prototype m (definite singular prototypen, indefinite plural prototyper, definite plural prototypene)

1. a prototype

References

• “prototype” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• prototyp

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????- (pr?to-) + ????? (túpos)

Noun

prototype m (definite singular prototypen, indefinite plural prototypar, definite plural prototypane)

1. a prototype

References

• “prototype” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.