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Latin
Etymology
ante- (“beforehand”, “in advance”) + capiō (“I capture”, “I take”)
Pronunciation
Verb
antecapiō (present infinitive antecapere, perfect active antecēpī, supine anteceptum); third conjugation iō-variant
- to obtain, receive, or take before or beforehand
- to seize or take possession of beforehand, to pre-occupy
- (with the perfect passive participle anteceptus -a -um, of an idea) conceived a priori
- (with the ablative animō) to anticipate (in thought)
- to take antecipatory action (against something), to forestall
Conjugation
References
- “antĕcăpĭo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “antecapio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- antĕcăpĭo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 132/2.
- “antecapiō” on page 138/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)