antefero Latin · revision 32126

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Coelius Antipater|origins=ine-pro *bʰer-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [anˈtɛ.fɛ.roː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [anˈtɛː.fe.ro]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''anteferō''' (present infinitive anteferre, perfect active antetulī, supine antelātum); third conjugation, suppletive^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|ante-|ferō|t1=before|t2=to carry]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|ferō]] to [[itc-pro|*fere/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*bʰer-e/o-|t=to carry]], and [[m|la|ante]] to [[m|itc-pro|*anti|t=before, in front of]], the locative of a root noun [[m|ine-pro|*h₂ent-|t=front]].^(de Vaan 2008) The TLL notes that Livy never uses it and writes [[m|la|praeferō]] instead.^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL's first examples are a fragment of the historian Coelius Antipater and a line of Varro quoted by Nonius, both of things carried in front;^(TLL)^(OLD 2012) Caesar's ''Civil War'' speaks of the fasces being carried before a magistrate.^(TLL)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its literal sense, to carry in front, stays rare;^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Tacitus uses it of the titles of laws carried before a funeral procession.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Much more often it is figurative: Cicero uses it of anticipating what the day will bring, of placing one thing before another in time, and above all of preferring one person or thing to another, as when he sets Demosthenes above all other orators.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The construction is with an accusative and a dative of what is ranked lower.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of anticipating events and of preferring one thing to another.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar of the fasces carried in front.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of the titles of laws carried before a funeral.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To carry in front of, or in advance of.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To bring forward in time, [[m|en|anticipate]]; to place before in time.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To give [[m|en|precedence]] to, [[m|en|prefer]], rank above another.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}