different between anterior vs tripus

English

Alternative forms

• anteriour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin anterior (“that is before, foremost”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /an?t??.?i.?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /æn?t??.i.?/
• Rhymes: -???i?(?)

Adjective

anterior (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) Nearer the forward end, especially in the front of the body; nearer the head or forepart of an animal.
   1. (botany) (of a part of a flower or leaf) Situated further away from the mainstem.
   2. (phonetics) Pronounced with an obstruction located in front of the palato-alveolar region of the mouth, e.g. b, p, d, t.
2. (formal) Coming before or earlier in time or development, prior to, preceding.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:former

Antonyms

• posterior

Coordinate terms

• (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]}

Derived terms

Related terms

• auricularis anterior
• past anterior

Translations

References

• “anterior”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “anterior”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• eritoran, erration, rationer

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin anterior.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?n.t?.?i?o/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /an.te.?i?o?/

Adjective

anterior (masculine and feminine plural anteriors)

1. anterior (before; preceding)
2. previous

Synonyms

• previ

Antonyms

• posterior

Derived terms

• anterioritat
• anteriorment

Further reading

• “anterior” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “anterior” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “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.

Galician

Etymology

From Latin anterior.

Adjective

anterior m or f (plural anteriores)

1. anterior, previous

   Synonyms: precedente, previo

   Antonym: posterior

2. (anatomy) anterior (nearer the forward end)

   Antonym: posterior

Derived terms

• anterioridade
• anteriormente

Further reading

• “anterior” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

German

Etymology

From Latin anterior.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /an?te??io???/
• Hyphenation: an?te?ri?or

Adjective

anterior (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) anterior

Declension

Further reading

• “anterior” in Duden online

Latin

Etymology

Comparative form of lost adjective *anterus, from Proto-Indo-European *h?énteros. Related to ante.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

anterior (neuter anterius, positive *anterus); third declension (Late Latin)

1. That is before, more forward, foremost; (of time) former, previous; anterior.

Inflection

Third-declension comparative adjective.

Related terms

• anterius (adverb)

Descendants

References

• 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

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin anterior.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /??.?te.?i.?o?/, [????.t?e.??.?o?]

Adjective

anterior (plural anteriores, comparable)

1. anterior
2. previous, preceding

Derived terms

• anterioridade
• anteriormente

Further reading

• “anterior” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin anterior and French antérieur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /an.te.ri?or/

Adjective

anterior m or n (feminine singular anterioar?, masculine plural anteriori, feminine and neuter plural anterioare)

1. previous

   Synonym: precedent

   Antonym: urm?tor

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin anterior.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ante??jo?/, [ãn?.t?e??jo?]

Adjective

anterior (plural anteriores)

1. anterior (in time), previous, earlier, former, past

   Synonym: previo

   Antonym: posterior

2. anterior (in space)

   Synonyms: delantero, frontal

   Antonym: posterior

Derived terms

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin trip?s, from Ancient Greek ??????? (trípous); doublet of tripod. In the sense associated with Cambridge University, the Tripus is named after the three-legged stool on which he sat during the degree-awarding ceremony.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr??p?s, IPA^(key): /?t?a?p?s/

Noun

tripus (plural tripodes)

1. (obsolete, rare, in the historical of Cambridge University, capitalised when used as a title) A Bachelor of Arts appointed to make satirical strictures in humorous dispute with the candidates at a degree-awarding ceremony; tripos, prevaricator.
2. (obsolete, rare) A vessel (usually a pot or cauldron) resting on three legs, often given as an ornament, a prize, or as an offering at a shrine to a god or oracle; often specifically, that such vessel upon which the priestess sat to deliver her oracles at the shrine to Apollo at Delphi; tripod.
3. (zoology, in cypriniform fishes) The hindmost Weberian ossicle of the Weberian apparatus, touching the anterior wall of the swimbladder and connected by a dense, elongate ligament to the intercalarium.

Synonyms

• (tripos, prevaricator): bachelor of the stool, prevaricator, terrae filius (equivalent at Oxford University), tripos
• (three-legged vessel in Greek and Roman antiquities): tripod
• (bone in fishes): malleus, malleus Weberi

References

• “?tripus” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]
• The Century Dictionary Online
• Dictionary of Ichthyology, Brian W. Coad and Don E. McAllister
• A Dictionary of Scientific Terms, Henderson I. F., Henderson W. D., BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2009, ?ISBN, ?ISBN, p. 174

Anagrams

• purist, spruit, stir up, uprist, upstir

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ??????? (trípous).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tri.pu?s/, [?t???pu?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tri.pus/, [?t??i?pus]

Noun

trip?s m (genitive tripodis); third declension

1. three-footed seat, tripod
   • 1531, Procopius Caesariensis, De rebus Gothorum, Persarum ac Vandalorum libri VII, page 262

2. tripus (the tripod of the oracle at Delphi)
   • 1826, Børge Thorlacius, Vas pictum Halico-graecum quod Orestem ad tripodem Delphicum supplicem exhibet, main title (Schultz)

Usage notes

• In post-Classical Latin, trip?s is sometimes treated as feminine.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? Catalan: trípode
• ? English: tripod, tripus
• ? Finnish: tripodi
• ? French: tripode
• ? Galician: trípode
• ? Hungarian: tripod
• ? Italian: tripode
• ? Spanish: trípode

Further reading

• tripus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tripus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tripus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• tripus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers