anta
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin antae (“pilasters”)
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
- (architecture) A kind of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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
GalicianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Probably from Latin antae (“jamb”); alternatively from a substrate Indo-European language[1]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
anta m (plural antas)
- dolmen, menhir, megalith; landmark
- large vertical stone used in the construction of drystone walls
- Synonym: chanto
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “anta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “anta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “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.
- ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1983–1991), “anta”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN
HausaEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
antā̀ f (possessed form antàr̃)
- Alternative spelling of hanta
IndonesianEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Sanskrit अन्त (antá, “disposition, essence”).
NounEdit
anta (first-person possessive antaku, second-person possessive antamu, third-person possessive antanya)
Etymology 2Edit
From Arabic أَنْتَ (ʾanta, “you”).
PronounEdit
anta
Alternative formsEdit
SynonymsEdit
Indonesian informal second-person pronouns:
- kamu (intimate)
- antum (informal, Muslim community)
- lu, lo (slang, Jakarta)
- coen, ko, kowe (slang, Java)
- koen (slang, East Java)
- kau (informal, Sumatra, West Kalimantan)
- engkau, kau, dikau (poetic)
Etymology 3Edit
NounEdit
anta (first-person possessive antaku, second-person possessive antamu, third-person possessive antanya)
Further readingEdit
- “anta” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
ItalianEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
anta f (plural ante)
SynonymsEdit
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)
AnagramsEdit
JapaneseEdit
RomanizationEdit
anta
LudianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Finnic *antadak.
VerbEdit
anta
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
an- + ta; from German annehmen.
VerbEdit
anta (imperative anta, present tense antar, passive antas, simple past antok, past participle antatt, present participle antakende)
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “anta” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
PaliEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Inherited from Sanskrit अन्त (anta).
NounEdit
anta m
DeclensionEdit
Case \ Number | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative (first) | anto | antā |
Accusative (second) | antaṃ | ante |
Instrumental (third) | antena | antehi or antebhi |
Dative (fourth) | antassa or antāya or antatthaṃ | antānaṃ |
Ablative (fifth) | antasmā or antamhā or antā | antehi or antebhi |
Genitive (sixth) | antassa | antānaṃ |
Locative (seventh) | antasmiṃ or antamhi or ante | antesu |
Vocative (calling) | anta | antā |
Derived termsEdit
- kāranta (“final sound of word”)
NounEdit
anta n
DeclensionEdit
Case \ Number | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative (first) | antaṃ | antāni |
Accusative (second) | antaṃ | antāni |
Instrumental (third) | antena | antehi or antebhi |
Dative (fourth) | antassa or antāya or antatthaṃ | antānaṃ |
Ablative (fifth) | antasmā or antamhā or antā | antehi or antebhi |
Genitive (sixth) | antassa | antānaṃ |
Locative (seventh) | antasmiṃ or antamhi or ante | antesu |
Vocative (calling) | anta | antāni |
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
anta f
DeclensionEdit
Further readingEdit
- anta in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- anta in Polish dictionaries at PWN
PortugueseEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Portuguese anta, from Latin antās, antae pl.
NounEdit
anta f (plural antas)
- (architecture) anta
- (archaeology) dolmen (prehistoric megalithic tomb)
- Synonym: dólmen
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
anta f (plural antas)
- tapir (large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae)
- Synonym: tapir
NounEdit
anta m, f (plural antas)
- (Brazil, figuratively) a stupid person
- Você é uma anta!
- You are an idiot!
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From ante.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
anta f (plural antas)
- female equivalent of ante; moose, elk
- (Bolivia) tapir (large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae.)
Further readingEdit
- “anta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.
PronunciationEdit
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VerbEdit
anta (present antar, preterite antog, supine antagit, imperative anta)
- 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.
- 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.
- (especially in the past participle) to accept (to a school, etc.)
- Jag har blivit antagen till Harvard!
- I've been accepted to Harvard!
ConjugationEdit
Active | Passive | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Infinitive | anta | antas | ||
Supine | antagit | antagits | ||
Imperative | anta | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | antan | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | antar | antog | antas | antogs |
Ind. plural1 | anta | antogo | antas | antogos |
Subjunctive2 | anta | antoge | antas | antoges |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | antagande | |||
Past participle | antagen | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- anta in Nationalencyklopedin (needs an authorization fee).
- anta in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
AnagramsEdit
TagalogEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
antá or anta