in ante

Latin

Etymology

From in +‎ ante (“before”). Found in Jerome, the Itinerarium Antonini, and Egeria as well as in Medieval Latin authors such as Bede.

Adverb

in ante (not comparable) (Late Latin, Medieval Latin)

1. before

Preposition

in ante (+ accusative) (Late Latin, Medieval Latin)

1. before

Descendants

• Dalmatian:
  • aninč
• Italo-Romance:
  • Old Italian: inante, nante, enanti, nanti
  • Neapolitan: 'nnante, 'nnènte (Agnone)
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: nant ⇒ indenant
  • Istriot: nanti
  • Lombard: inant
  • Piedmontese: adnan
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old Franco-Provençal: enant ⇒ denant
  • Old French: anant
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Old Catalan: enant
  • Old Occitan: enant, enan ⇒ denan
    • Occitan: enant, einant
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: enantis ⇒ denantis
  • Extremaduran: enantis ⇒ endinantis
  • Leonese: anantes, enantias, enantes ⇒ endenantes
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: enante ⇒ deante
    • Galician: diante
    • Portuguese: diante
  • Old Spanish: enantes, enante ⇒ denante, delante
    • Spanish: delante
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *inantius
  • Italian: innanzi ⇒ dinnanzi
  • Old French: enanz, enans
  • Old Occitan: inanç, enans
  • Piedmontese: anans ⇒ dnans
  • Venetian: anànsi