different between anti vs aunt

English

Etymology

Conversion of the prefix anti- to an adjective.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æn.ti/
• Rhymes: -ænti
• Homophone: auntie (in some accents)

Adjective

anti (comparative more anti, superlative most anti)

1. Opposed to something.
2. (chemistry) That has a torsion angle between 90° and 180°

Coordinate terms

• (chemistry): syn

Translations

Noun

anti (plural antis)

1. A person opposed to a concept or principle.

Antonyms

• pro

Translations

Preposition

anti

1. (rare) Alternative form of anti-

See also

• anti-

Anagrams

• NAIT, TINA, Tain, Tani, Tian, Tina, ain't, ani?, nait, tain, tian, tina

Finnish

Etymology

From the root of antaa. Cognate with Estonian and.

Noun

anti

1. (finance) offering, issue (of shares, bonds etc).
2. the achieved outcome or result (of a meeting etc.)

Declension

Related terms

• osakeanti

Anagrams

• nait, tain, tina

Garo

Etymology

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

Noun

anti (A·chik)

1. week
2. market

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

anti (obsolete)

1. Alternative form of ante (all senses)
   • 13th century, Guido Guinizelli, Al cor gentil rempaira sempre amore (Gianfranco Contini, Poeti del Duecento, Riccardo Ricciardi (1960), vol. 2, p.461):

     [...] né fe’ amor anti che gentil core ¶ né gentil core anti ch’amor, natura: [...]

     [...] neither before the gentle heart was Love ¶ nor Love ere gentle heart by Nature made: [...]

   • 1282, Restoro d'Arezzo, La composizione del mondo colle sue cascioni, Accademia della Crusca (1976), p. 174:

     [...] sapemo bene che l'acqua non se stregne e ghiacia e·lloco caldo, anti se ghiacia e·lloco là o' non pò lo sole, molto fredissimo [...]

     [...] we know well that water does not contract and freeze in a hot place, rather it freezes in a very cold place, where the Sun cannot [reach] [...]

Old High German

Alternative forms

• enti
• ande
• endi
• indi
• inti
• inte
• int
• unti
• unte
• unta

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /anti/

Conjunction

anti

1. and

References

1. Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer, Second Edition

Portuguese

Adjective

anti (invariable, comparable)

1. (chemistry) anti (that has a torsion angle between 90° and 180°)

Quechua

Adjective

anti

1. eastern

Noun

anti

1. east

Declension

Synonyms

• intichay

Coordinate terms

• chincha
• kunti
• qulla

Spanish

Etymology

From anti-.

Adjective

anti (invariable)

1. anti-, opposing

Further reading

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

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English auntie.

Noun

anti

1. aunt (polite term for any woman a generation older than oneself)

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English aunty, auntie.

Noun

anti

1. paternal aunt; one's father's sister

English

Etymology

From Middle English aunte, from Anglo-Norman aunte, from Old French ante, from Latin amita (“father's sister”). Displaced native Middle English modrie (“aunt”) (from Old English m?dri?e (“maternal aunt”); compare Old English faþu, faþe (“paternal aunt”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian, New England, AAVE, some other US areas) enPR: änt, IPA^(key): /?(?)nt/

  Rhymes: -??nt

  Homophone: aren't (in some non-rhotic accents)

• (Northern England, Canada, General American) enPR: ?nt, IPA^(key): /ænt/ (in the US, this is the most common pronunciation in all regions except New England and Virginia)

  Rhymes: -ænt

  Homophone: ant

• (Southern Hiberno-English) IPA^(key): /æ?nt/ (not homophonous with "ant")
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ant/
• (Canada, Maritimes) IPA^(key): /?nt/

  Rhymes: -?nt

• (New England) enPR: ônt, IPA^(key): /?nt/

  Rhymes: -??nt

• (Southern American English, occasionally) IPA^(key): /e?nt/

  Homophone: ain't

Noun

aunt (plural aunts)

1. The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.
   • 1923, P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:

     As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.

2. (endearing) The female cousin of one’s parent.
3. (endearing) A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.
4. (obsolete) Any elderly woman.
5. (obsolete) A procuress or bawd.

Synonyms

• auntie, aunty (diminutive)
• auntyji (India, as a respectful term of address)
• naunt (nonstandard, proscribed, dated)

Antonyms

• (with regard to gender) uncle
• (with regard to ancestry) niece, nephew

Hypernyms

• (sibling of someone's parent) auncle, pibling (nonstandard)

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Irish: aint

Translations

Several languages distinguish between blood aunts (one’s parent’s sister) and in-law aunts (one’s parent’s sister-in-law), some distinguish between paternal and maternal aunts, and some distinguish between one’s parent’s older siblings and younger siblings.

See also

• materteral

References

Further reading

• aunt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• -naut, Tuna, naut., tuan, tuna