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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From ante- + eō. Forms in antid- are part of the same analogy as redeō, antideā, to avoid hiatus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈan.te.oː/,
- Note: the double -ee- in this word is not pronounced but is purely orthographic, in line with the "full" spelling of prepositional/prefixal elements. Not only do Latin short vowels followed by other vowels regularly elide on the phonetic level, but stem-final short vowels are already regularly elided on the morphophonological level, i.e. during word derivation.
Verb
anteeō (present infinitive anteīre, perfect active anteiī or anteīvī, supine anteitum); irregular conjugation, irregular
- to go before, precede (walk on ahead)
- Synonyms: antecēdō, praecēdō, praeeō
- to surpass
- Synonyms: excellō, antecēdō, praeēmineō, trānseō
- to anticipate
- Synonyms: praecipiō, occupō
Conjugation
References
Further reading
- “anteeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “anteeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- anteeo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be older than: aetate alicui antecedere, anteire