antre
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French [Term?], from Latin antrum, from Ancient Greek ἄντρον (ántron). Doublet of antrum.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈæn.tə(ɹ)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈæn.tɚ/, [ˈæn.(ɾ)ɚ]
Noun edit
antre (plural antres)
- (archaic) Cavern; cave.
- 1818, John Keats, Endymion, Book II:
- Aye, millions sparkled on a vein of gold, / Along whose track the prince quick footsteps told, / With all its lines abrupt and angular: / Out-shooting sometimes, like a meteor-star, / Through a vast antre;
- 1879, George Meredith, The Egoist, Chapter XXIII: Treats of the Union of Temper and Policy,
- Seeing him as she did, she turned from him and shunned his house as the antre of an ogre.
- 1888, Richard Francis Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume 16:
- Hereat quoth he to himself, "If I enter this antre, haply shall I lose myself, and perish of hunger and thirst!"
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin antrum, from Ancient Greek ἄντρον (ántron).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
antre m (plural antres)
Further reading edit
- “antre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Haitian Creole edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
antre
- to enter
Indonesian edit
Alternative forms edit
- antri (nonstandard)
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
antré (first-person possessive antreku, second-person possessive antremu, third-person possessive antrenya)
- queue, a line of people, vehicles or other objects, in which one at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on, and which newcomers join at the opposite end (the back).
- Synonym: antrean
Verb edit
antré
- to queue,
- to put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line.
- to arrange themselves into a physical waiting queue.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of antre (meng-, transitive) | |||||
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Root | antre | ||||
Active | Involuntary / Perfective |
Passive | Basic / Imperative |
Jussive | |
Active | mengantre | antre | antrelah | ||
Locative | |||||
Causative / Applicative1 | mengantrekan | diantrekan | antrekan | antrekanlah | |
Causative | |||||
Locative | |||||
Causative / Applicative1 | |||||
1The -kan row is either causative or applicative, with transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning. Notes: Some of these forms do normally not exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning. |
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “antre” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Mirandese edit
Etymology edit
Preposition edit
antre
Portuguese edit
Preposition edit
antre
Serbo-Croatian edit
Noun edit
antre m (Cyrillic spelling антре)
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish آنتره (antre), from French entrée.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
antre (definite accusative antreyi, plural antreler)
Declension edit
Inflection | ||
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Nominative | antre | |
Definite accusative | antreyi | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | antre | antreler |
Definite accusative | antreyi | antreleri |
Dative | antreye | antrelere |
Locative | antrede | antrelerde |
Ablative | antreden | antrelerden |
Genitive | antrenin | antrelerin |