anta

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

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English

Etymology

From Latin antae (“pilasters”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæn.tə/

Noun

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 terms

• 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

Anagrams

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

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Galician

Alternative forms

• ante

Etymology

Probably from Latin antae (“jamb”); alternatively from a substrate Indo-European language

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈanta̝/

Noun

anta m (plural antas)

1. dolmen, menhir, megalith; landmark

   Synonyms: arca, forno

2. large vertical stone used in the construction of drystone walls

   Synonym: chanto

Derived terms

• Anta
• Antas
• Antas de Ulla

References

• “anta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “anta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “anta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “anta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “anta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Hausa

Noun

antā̀ f (possessed form antàr̃)

1. Alternative spelling of hanta

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈan.ta/

Etymology 1

From Latin antae f pl.

Noun

anta f (plural ante)

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

Synonyms

• sportello
• pannello

Etymology 2

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

Noun

anta m pl (plural only)

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

Anagrams

• nata
• tana

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Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *antadak.

Verb

anta

1. give

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

an- +‎ ta; from German [Term?]

Verb

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 terms

• antagelig, antakelig
• antagelse, antakelse

References

• “anta” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

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

Noun

anta m

1. end
2. goal
3. top

Noun

anta n

1. intestine, tharm

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

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

anta

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese anta, from Latin antae pl.

Noun

anta f (plural antas)

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

Synonyms

• (dolmen): dólmen

anta (Tapirus indicus)

Etymology 2

From Arabic لَمْتَة‎ (lamta).

Noun

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!

Synonyms

• (tapir): tapir

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Spanish

Etymology

From ante.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈanta/, [ˈãn̪t̪a]

Noun

anta f (plural antas)

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

Synonyms

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

Further reading

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

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Swedish

Etymology

Apocopic form of antaga, calqued from Middle Low German annemen or German annehmen. 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 Danish antage, Norwegian Bokmål anta, Norwegian Nynorsk anta, antake, antaka. Morphologically the same as native Swedish åta (åtaga) and English ontake.

Pronunciation

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Verb

anta

1. to suppose, to presume, to guess

   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.

3. (especially in the past participle) to accept /to a school etc./

   Jag har blivit antagen till Harvard!

   I've been accepted to Harvard!

Conjugation

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

Derived terms

• antagning
• antagande

References

• anta in Nationalencyklopedin (needs an authorization fee).

• anta in Svenska Akademiens ordbok online.

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Tagalog

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔan.ˈta/, /ˈʔan.ta/

Noun

antá or anta

1. rancidity; rancid odor

Derived terms

• maanta
• magpaanta
• paantahin
• umanta