different between before vs ante

English

Alternative forms

• befo (pronunciation spelling)
• befo' (pronunciation spelling)

Etymology

From Middle English before, bifore (adverb and preposition), from Old English beforan, from be- + foran (“before”), from fore, from Proto-Germanic *furai, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“front”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian befoar (“before”), German Low German bevör (“before”), German bevor (“before”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: b?fô?, IPA^(key): /b??f??/
• (General American) enPR: b?fôr?, b?fôr?, IPA^(key): /b??f??/, /bi?f??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: b?f?r?, IPA^(key): /b??fo(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /b??fo?/
• Hyphenation: be?fore
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Preposition

before

1. Earlier than (in time).
2. In front of in space.

   • His angel, who shall go / Before them in a cloud and pillar of fire.

   • He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. […] But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again […] she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.
3. In the presence of.

   He performed before the troops in North Africa.

   He spoke before a joint session of Congress.

4. Under consideration, judgment, authority of (someone).
   • 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani

     If a suit be begun before an archdeacon […]

5. In store for, in the future of (someone).
6. In front of, according to a formal system of ordering items.

7. At a higher or greater position than, in a ranking.

Synonyms

• (earlier than in time): by, no later than, previous to, prior to, ere (obsolete)
• (in front of in space): ahead of, in front of
• (in front of according to an ordering system): ahead of

Antonyms

• (earlier than in time): after, later than
• (in front of in space): behind
• (in front of according to an ordering system): after

Translations

Adverb

before (not comparable)

1. At an earlier time.

2. In advance.
3. At the front end.
   • 1896, Hilaire Belloc, The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts, “The Elephant”:

     When people call this beast to mind,
     They marvel more and more
     At such a little tail behind,
     So LARGE a trunk before.

Synonyms

• (at an earlier time): previously
• (in advance): ahead
• (at the front end): in front

Antonyms

• (at an earlier time): after
• (at the front end): behind

Derived terms

• beforehand
• beforetime

Translations

Conjunction

before

1. In advance of the time when.

   • before this elaborate treatise can become of universal use and ornament to my native country, two points […] are absolutely necessary.
2. (informal) Rather or sooner than.

Synonyms

• (rather than): lest

Translations

References

• before at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Spatial particles of orientation", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8

Anagrams

• borfee

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ante (“before”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?ænti/
• Rhymes: -ænti
• Homophones: anti, anty, auntie (one pronunciation)

Noun

ante (plural antes)

1. A price or cost, as in up the ante.
2. (poker) In poker and other games, the contribution made by all players to the pot before dealing the cards.

Translations

See also

• penny ante
• up the ante

Verb

ante (third-person singular simple present antes, present participle anteing, simple past and past participle anted or anteed)

1. To pay the ante in poker. Often used as ante up.
2. To make an investment in money, effort, or time before knowing one's chances.

Translations

References

• ante in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Aten, Etan, Etna, Nate, Tean, Tena, anet, etna, neat, neta, ta'en

Asturian

Alternative forms

• énte

Etymology

From Latin ante.

Preposition

ante

1. before, in front of

Cimbrian

Etymology

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

Noun

ante ?

1. (Sette Comuni) sorrow

References

• “ante” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French ante.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ante f (plural anten)

1. (architecture) anta, corner pilaster

French

Etymology

From Latin antae

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t/

Noun

ante f (plural antes)

1. anta

Galician

Preposition

ante

1. before, in front of

   Synonym: perante

Related terms

Noun

ante m (plural antes)

1. elk (US), moose (UK) (Alces alces)

   Synonym: alce

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian ante, Spanish ante, and to some extent English anterior, all ultimately from Latin ante. (Compare Esperanto anta? (“before”, time and space).)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ante/

Preposition

ante

1. before (of time)

   Antonym: pos

Derived terms

Paronyms

• avan (“before”, in space)

Interlingua

Preposition

ante

1. ago

Usage notes

• The English word "ago" is used like a postposition.

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Latin ante, from Proto-Indo-European *h?énti (“opposite, in front of”).

Alternative forms

• anti

Adverb

ante (obsolete)

1. afore, ere; before, earlier
   • 1374, Francesco Petrarca, “Anima, che diverse cose tante”, Il Canzoniere, Andrea Bettini (1858), p.220:

     Per quanto non vorreste o poscia od ante ¶ esser giunti al cammin che sì mal tiensi, ¶ per non trovarvi i duo bei lumi accensi, ¶ nè l'orme impresse dell'amate piante?

     How much later, or earlier, do you wish ¶ you had taken the road, that's so hard to follow, ¶ so as not to have met those two bright eyes ¶ or the steps of those beloved feet?

2. rather than, instead (of)
   • c. 1362, Buccio di Ranallo, Cronaca aquilana rimata, Forzani (1907), p. 171, “Anima, che diverse cose tante”:

     Lo duca de Duraczo respuse «Ad me despiace; ¶ collo re non vollio briga, ante vi vollio pace [...]»

     The Duke of Durazzo replied «I disagree; ¶ I wish not for trouble, but rather peace, with the king [...]»

Related terms

• ante-
• anteriore
• anzi
• anziano
• avanti

Etymology 2

Form of anta.

Noun

ante f

1. plural of anta

Anagrams

• nate
• tane

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h?énti, locative singular of the root noun *h?ent- (“front, front side”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ???? (antí, “opposite, facing”), Sanskrit ????? (ánti), Old Armenian ??? (?nd), Tocharian B ?nte, and English and.

Pronunciation

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

Preposition

ante (+ accusative)

1. (of space) before, in front, forwards
2. (of time) before

Adverb

ante (not comparable)

1. (of space) before, in front, forwards
2. (of time) before, previously

   ante diem V

   4th day before ("fifth" counting inclusively)

Synonyms

• (before, in front of): prae, pr?

Antonyms

• (before, in front of): post

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• ante in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ante in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ante in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• ante in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 45

Middle English

Noun

ante

1. Alternative form of ampte

Middle French

Noun

ante f (plural antes)

1. auntie; aunt

Descendants

• French: tante

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???nt?/
• Rhymes: -??nt?
• Hyphenation: an?te

Verb

ante

1. simple past of ane
2. past participle definite singular of ane
3. past participle plural of ane

Anagrams

• etan, nate, tane

Old French

Noun

ante f

1. nominative singular of antain

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

ante

1. inflection of anta (“end”):
   1. locative singular
   2. accusative plural
2. locative singular of anta (“intestine”)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??nt?i

Preposition

ante

1. before (in front of in space)
2. in front of (at or near the front part of)
3. in front of (in the presence of someone)

Synonyms

• (in front of): em frente a, na frente de, diante de

Adverb

ante (not comparable)

1. Obsolete form of antes.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ante/, [?ãn?.t?e]

Etymology 1

From Latin ante.

Preposition

ante

1. in front of, before

2. against, compared to

   Synonyms: contra, frente a

Derived terms

• ante la duda
• ante todo

Related terms

• ante-
• antes

Etymology 2

From Andalusian Arabic ???? (lám?).

Noun

ante m (plural antes, feminine anta, feminine plural antas)

1. elk

   Synonym: alce

2. suede
3. (Mexico) tapir (large odd-toed ungulate, with a long prehensile upper lip, of the family Tapiridae)

   Synonyms: sachavaca, anta, anteburro, tapir

Derived terms

• anteado
• anteburro

Further reading

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

Swedish

Verb

ante

1. (colloquial, dialectal) past tense of ana

See also

• anade
• det ante mig

Anagrams

• Aten, enat, etan