anti-
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-, “against”). Doublet of and- and ante-.
PronunciationEdit
PrefixEdit
anti-
- Against, hostile to.
- Contrasting with the norm.
- Opposite of, reverse.
- Physically opposite: applied to mountain ranges.
- Anti-Lebanon, Anti-Taurus, Anti-Atlas
- Counteracting, neutralizing.
- (particle physics) Related to antiparticles or antimatter.
- (immunology) That reacts with immunoglobins found in the specified animal.
- (games, game theory) Indicating that a game's conventional victory conditions have been reversed: misère.
Usage notesEdit
- anti- should not be confused with the prefix ante- of Latin (not Greek) origin meaning “before”. (However, anti- does exist as a variant spelling of ante- in some borrowed words, such as anticipate and antipasto, but this spelling cannot be used to coin English words.)
- anti- sometimes becomes ant- before words beginning in a vowel, as does ante-: antacid.
- In British English, the anti- forms are often hyphenated as evidenced by OED's many anti- entries using hyphen. However, the exact convention significantly varies.
- GPO manual recommends using a hyphen when prefixing capitalized words except when usage dictates otherwise.[1] This is matched by usual practice: anti-American or anti-Christian.
SynonymsEdit
AntonymsEdit
- (against, hostile to): pro-
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ 6. Compounding Rules in U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual, govinfo.gov
Further readingEdit
- anti- at OneLook Dictionary Search
- “anti-”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
- “anti-”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN. -- lists many derived terms
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
PrefixEdit
anti-
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Further readingEdit
- “anti-” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “anti-”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “anti-” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
CzechEdit
PronunciationEdit
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anti-
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Further readingEdit
- anti- in Slovník afixů užívaných v češtině, 2017
DanishEdit
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anti-
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DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-).
PronunciationEdit
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anti-
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DescendantsEdit
- → Indonesian: anti-
EsperantoEdit
EtymologyEdit
Derived from Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-, “against”).
PronunciationEdit
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anti-
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FinnishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Internationalism (see English anti-), ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-).
PronunciationEdit
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anti-
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FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-, “against”).
PronunciationEdit
PrefixEdit
anti-
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “anti-”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
GalicianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-, “against”).
PrefixEdit
anti-
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “anti-” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
GaroEdit
EtymologyEdit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
ClassifierEdit
anti-
- classifier for weeks
SynonymsEdit
GermanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-, “against”), influenced by Latin borrowings from Greek beginning with anti- (like Antichristus) and German borrowings from Latin or Greek.
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
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anti-
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HungarianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”).[1]
PronunciationEdit
PrefixEdit
anti-
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See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
IdoEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English anti-, French anti-, German anti-, Italian anti-, Spanish anti-, Russian анти- (anti-), all ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí).
PronunciationEdit
PrefixEdit
anti-
- anti-, contra-, counter- (for use mainly in scientific terms)
- anti- + toxino (“toxin”) → antitoxino (“antitoxin”)
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IndonesianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Malay anti-, from Dutch anti-, from Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-, “against”).
PronunciationEdit
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anti-
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Further readingEdit
- “anti-” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
ItalianEdit
Etymology 1Edit
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Etymology 2Edit
From Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-, “against”).
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anti-
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AnagramsEdit
MalayEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Dutch anti-, from Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-, “against”).
PronunciationEdit
PrefixEdit
anti- (Jawi spelling انت)
Usage notesEdit
- Before proper nouns and numerals, this prefix must be followed by a dash '-'.
- Before other types of nouns, no dash is needed.
Further readingEdit
- “anti-” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
AnagramsEdit
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”).
PrefixEdit
anti-
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ReferencesEdit
- “anti-” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”).
PrefixEdit
anti-
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ReferencesEdit
- “anti-” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”).
PronunciationEdit
PrefixEdit
anti-
- anti-
- (particle physics) anti- (related to antiparticles or antimatter)
Derived termsEdit
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”).
PrefixEdit
anti-
- anti-; against, opposite, protecting against
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “anti-”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”).
PrefixEdit
anti-
- anti-; against, opposite, protecting against