different between antedate vs antecedent

English

Etymology

ante- +? date

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ænti?de?t/

Verb

antedate (third-person singular simple present antedates, present participle antedating, simple past and past participle antedated)

1. To occur before an event or time; to exist further back in time.
   • 2010, Giancarlo Gandolfo, Economic Dynamics, 4th ed., Springer 2010, p.?311

     Actually, mathematical models of multi-sector growth models antedate the Harrod-Domar and Solow-Swan aggregate models.

2. To assign a date to a document or action earlier than the actual date; to backdate.
3. (lexicography) To find earlier citational evidence for a term.

Synonyms

• (occur before an event or time): predate; see also Thesaurus:predate
• (earlier than the actual date): backdate, foredate; see also Thesaurus:backdate

Antonyms

• (occur before an event or time): postdate
• (earlier than the actual date): postdate, overdate; see also Thesaurus:overdate

Translations

Noun

antedate

1. Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.
2. (obsolete) anticipation

Spanish

Verb

antedate

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of antedatar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of antedatar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of antedatar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of antedatar.

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