anta

See also: ANTA, ȧnta, äntä, -anta, anta-, and -anță

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin antae (“pilasters”)

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈæn.tə/

NounEdit

anta (plural antae or antas)

1. (architecture) A kind of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.

Related termsEdit

• in antis

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for anta in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

AnagramsEdit

• AANT, Anat, Nata, Tana, anat., naat, taan, tana

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HausaEdit

NounEdit

antā̀ f (possessed form antàr̃)

1. Alternative spelling of hanta

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ItalianEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈan.ta/

Etymology 1Edit

From Latin antae f pl.

NounEdit

anta f (plural ante)

1. door of furniture
2. shutter (of window)
3. sash (of window)

Etymology 2Edit

From the suffix -anta common to quaranta (“forty”), cinquanta (“fifty”), sessanta (“sixty”), settanta (“seventy”), ottanta (“eighty”), and novanta (“ninety”).

NounEdit

anta m pl (plural only)

1. (informal) forties, sixties, seventies... (in someone's age)

AnagramsEdit

• nata
• tana

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LudianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Finnic *antadak.

VerbEdit

anta

1. give

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Norwegian BokmålEdit

EtymologyEdit

an- +‎ ta; from German [Term?]

VerbEdit

anta (imperative anta, present tense antar, passive antas, simple past antok, past participle antatt, present participle antakende)

1. to assume, presume
2. to accept, approve

Derived termsEdit

• antagelig, antakelig
• antagelse, antakelse

ReferencesEdit

• “anta” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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PaliEdit

Alternative formsEdit

Alternative forms

• 𑀅𑀦𑁆𑀢 (Brahmi script)
• अन्त (Devanagari script)
• অন্ত (Bengali script)
• අන්ත (Sinhalese script)
• အန္တ (Burmese script)
• อนฺต (Thai script)
• ᩋᨶ᩠ᨲ (Tai Tham script)
• អន្ត (Khmer script)

NounEdit

anta m

1. end
2. goal
3. top

NounEdit

anta n

1. intestine, tharm

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PortugueseEdit

PronunciationEdit

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɐ̃.ta/, /ˈɐ̃.tɐ/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɐ̃.tɐ/
• Hyphenation: an‧ta

anta

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Portuguese anta, from Latin antas.

NounEdit

anta f (plural antas)

1. (architecture) anta
2. dolmen (prehistoric megalithic tomb)

SynonymsEdit

• (dolmen): dólmen

anta (Tapirus indicus)

Etymology 2Edit

From Arabic لَمْتَة‎ (lamta).

NounEdit

anta f (plural antas)

1. tapir (large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae)
2. (figuratively) a stupid person

   Você é uma anta!

   You are an idiot!

SynonymsEdit

• (tapir): tapir

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SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From ante.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈanta/, [ˈãn̪t̪a]

NounEdit

anta f (plural antas)

1. feminine equivalent of ante; moose, elk
2. (Bolivia) tapir (large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae.)

SynonymsEdit

• (tapir): tapir, anteburro, sachavaca, danta, ante

Further readingEdit

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

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SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Apocopic form of antaga, from an (“on”) +‎ taga (“take”). All compounds with the verb ta have gone through apocope and those forms are now the standard ones, see also avta/avtaga, inta/intaga and överta/övertaga. Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål anta, Norwegian Nynorsk anta, antake, antaka and English ontake.

PronunciationEdit

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VerbEdit

anta

1. to suppose; to presume

   Jag antar att det är dags att köpa en ny kaffebryggare.

   I presume it's time to buy a new coffee machine.

2. to accept an offer

   Schackspelaren antog erbjudandet om remi efter att ha funderat på det.

   The chessplayer accepted the offer of a draw after having thought about it.

ConjugationEdit

Conjugation of anta (class 6 strong)

	Active	Passive
Infinitive	anta	antas
Present tense	antar	antas
Past tense	antog	antogs
Supine	antagit	antagits
Imperative	anta	—
Present participle	antagande
Past participle	antagen

Conjugation of antaga (somewhat dated)

	Active	Passive
Infinitive	antaga	antagas
Present tense	antager	antages
Past tense	antog	antogs
Supine	antagit	antagits
Imperative	antag	—
Present participle	antagande
Past participle	antagen

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TagalogEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ʔan.ˈta/, /ˈʔan.ta/

NounEdit

antá, anta

1. rancidity; rancid odor

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from anta

• maanta
• magpaanta

• paantahin

• umanta