antea Latin · revision 18179

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=la ante, la is}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈan.te.aː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈan.te.a]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''anteā''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

+ An older form ''antideā'' is found.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|la|ante|eā|t1=before|t2=these things]], with the ablative of [[m|la|is|t=this, that]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) It is built like [[antehāc]], [[posteā]] and [[proptereā]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Terence.^(Köbler 2010) The OLD also cites Cato, who contrasts ''anteā'' with ''posteā'': those who before had paid for their own meals, afterwards paid a hundred.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Anteā'' is “before, previously, in the past”, often contrasted with ''posteā'' or ''nunc''.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) With ''iam'' it is “already in the past”, and it can be followed by ''quam'', “before (that)”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “before, formerly, earlier”.^(Stelten 1995) In Medieval Latin it can also mean “rather”.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato contrasts ''anteā'' with ''posteā''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero: ''iam anteā'', “already before”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # Before, [[m|en|previously]], formerly.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''iam anteā'': already before.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''anteā quam'': before (that).^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' [[m|en|rather]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[antehāc]]

+ * [[ante]]

+ * [[posteā]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}