antico
See also: Antico
Italian
editEtymology 1
editInherited from Latin antīquus (“ancient”).
Alternative forms
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editantico (feminine antica, masculine plural antichi, feminine plural antiche, superlative antichissimo)
Derived terms
edit- anticaglia (“antique; old junk”)
- anticamente (“in ancient times; anciently”)
- anticato (“old-looking”)
- antichista (“antiquarian”)
- antichità (“antiquity; antique”)
- Antico Testamento (“Old Testament”)
- tardoantico (“relating to the final centuries of the Roman Empire”)
See also
editNoun
editantico m (plural antichi)
- (in the singular) collectively, ancient things
- l'antico e il moderno ― the ancient and the modern, the old and the new
- (in the plural) the ancients (people of the distant past)
Etymology 2
editBorrowed from Latin antīcus (“anterior”).
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editantico (feminine antica, masculine plural antichi, feminine plural antiche)
- (archaeology) anterior, front (of a structural element, the face of a sarcophagus, etc.)
Etymology 3
editFrom Latin antīcus, with a shift of stress due to it being reinterpreted as containing Latin -ĭcus / Italian -ico.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editantico (feminine antica, masculine plural antici, feminine plural antiche)
Further reading
edit- antico in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- antico in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- antico in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- antico in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- antìco¹ in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- antìco² in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- antico in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
- antico in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
editLatin
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /anˈtiː.koː/, [än̪ˈt̪iːkoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /anˈti.ko/, [än̪ˈt̪iːko]
Adjective
editantīcō
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