Word Origin Summary

Ἀντί is attested in Ancient Greek. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *h₂éntiProto-Indo-Europeanderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• anta-

  Irish · derived from

• antinomiano

  Spanish · derived from

• anthimeria

  English · derived from

• αντί

  Greek · inherited from

• anty

  Polish · derived from

• antoniem

  Dutch · derived from

• antipericatametanaparbeugedamphicribrationes

  Middle French · derived from

• anti-

  Hungarian · derived from

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