Word Origin Summary

Ante is attested in Latin. 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

• anti-

  Italian · derived from

• ante-

  English · derived from

• antan

  French · derived from

• antependium

  Polish · derived from

• anziano

  Italian · derived from

• ante litteram

  English · borrowed from

• ntãnjiu

  Aromanian · inherited from

• a.m.

  English · borrowed from

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