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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-, “against”). Doublet of ante-.
Pronunciation
Prefix
anti-
- Against, opposed to.
- Synonym: counter-
- Antonym: pro-
- anti- + abortion → antiabortion
- anti- + racism → antiracism
- Counteracting, neutralizing.
- Synonym: counter-
- anti- + aircraft → antiaircraft
- anti- + freeze → antifreeze
- anti- + bacterial → antibacterial
- The opposite of what is typically expected.
- anti- + hero → antihero (“a protagonist who acts in an unheroic manner”)
- anti- + climax → anticlimax (“a failed or reverse climax”)
- anti- + chess → antichess (“a variant of chess where the goal is to lose all of one's pieces”)
- Physically opposite, reverse in position or direction.
- anti- + clockwise → anticlockwise
- anti- + Arctic → Antarctic
- A rival or counterpart to.
- anti- + pope → antipope (“a person who claims to be the real pope”)
- anti- + Christ → Antichrist
- (particle physics) Composed of antimatter.
- anti- + electron → antielectron
- anti- + galaxy → antigalaxy
- (immunology) Reacting with immunoglobins found in the specified animal.
- anti- + rabbit → antirabbit
- anti- + horse → antihorse
Usage notes
- anti- should not be confused with the prefix ante- of Latin (not Greek) origin meaning “before”. (However, anti- does exist as a variant spelling of ante- in some borrowed words, such as anticipate and antipasto, but this spelling cannot be used to coin English words.)
- anti- sometimes becomes ant- before words beginning in a vowel, as does ante-: antacid.
- In British English, the anti- forms are often hyphenated as evidenced by OED's many anti- entries using hyphen. However, the exact convention significantly varies.
- GPO manual recommends using a hyphen when prefixing capitalized words except when usage dictates otherwise.[1] This is matched by usual practice: anti-American or anti-Christian.
Derived terms
Translations
against, hostile to
- Arabic: ضِدّ (ḍidd), مُضَادّ (muḍādd), نَقِيض (naqīḍ)
- Armenian: հակա- (haka-)
- Azerbaijani: anti-
- Catalan: anti- (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 反- (zh) (fǎn-), 抗 (zh) (kàng), 非 (zh) (fēi), 反對/反对 (zh) (fǎnduì)
- Czech: anti- (cs), proti-
- Dutch: anti- (nl)
- Esperanto: kontraŭ-
- Estonian: anti- (et)
- Finnish: anti- (fi), vasta- (fi), epä- (fi)
- French: anti- (fr)
- Galician: anti- (gl)
- Georgian: ანტი- (anṭi-)
- German: gegen- (de), anti- (de)
- Greek: αντι- (el) (anti-)
- Hebrew: אנטי־ (anti-)
- Hindi: प्रति- (prati-)
- Hungarian: ellen- (hu), -ellenes (hu), elleni (hu), anti- (hu)
- Ido: anti-
- Irish: anta-
- Italian: anti- (it)
- Japanese: 反- (ja) (はん-, han-), 非 (ja) (ひ, hi), 逆 (ja) (ぎゃく, gyaku), 反対 (ja) (はんたい, hantai)
- Kapampangan: kontra-, pangontra-
- Korean: 안티 (anti), 반(反) (ban-)
- Latin: contra-
- Latvian: pret-, anti-
- Macedonian: против- (protiv-), анти- (anti-)
- Malay: anti- (ms)
- Maori: ātete
- Middle Persian: 𐭩𐭥𐭲 (yʿt /ǰud-/)
- Persian: آنتی (fa) (ânti-), پادـ (pâd-)
- Polish: anty- (pl), przeciw- (pl)
- Portuguese: anti- (pt)
- Romanian: anti- (ro), contra- (ro)
- Russian: про́тиво- (ru) (prótivo-), противо- (ru) (protivo-), а́нти- (ru) (ánti-), анти- (ru) (anti-)
- Spanish: anti- (es), contra- (es)
- Swedish: anti- (sv)
- Tamil: எதிர் (ta) (etir)
- Vietnamese: chống (vi)
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See also
See also
References
Further reading
- “anti-”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “anti-”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “anti-”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN. -- lists many derived terms
Anagrams
- nait, Atin, ain't, aniṭ, Tian, tain, tian, tina, Tani, aint, Tain, TINA, -itan, NAIT, Tina
Basque
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /anti/
- Hyphenation: an‧ti-
Prefix
anti-
- anti-
Derived terms
Catalan
Pronunciation
Prefix
anti-
- anti
Derived terms
Further reading
Czech
Pronunciation
Prefix
anti-
- anti-
- Synonym: proti-
Derived terms
Further reading
- anti- in Slovník afixů užívaných v češtině, 2017
Danish
Prefix
anti-
- anti-
Derived terms
Dutch
Etymology
Ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-).
Pronunciation
Prefix
anti-
- anti-
Derived terms
Descendants
Esperanto
Etymology
Derived from Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-, “against”).
Pronunciation
Prefix
anti-
- anti-
Derived terms
Finnish
Etymology
Internationalism (see English anti-), ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-).
Pronunciation
Prefix
anti-
- anti-
Derived terms
Further reading
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-, “against”).
Pronunciation
Prefix
anti-
- anti-
Derived terms
Further reading
Galician
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-, “against”).
Prefix
anti-
- anti-
Derived terms
From
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Further reading
Garo
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Classifier
anti-
- classifier for weeks
Synonyms
German
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-, “against”), influenced by Latin borrowings from Greek beginning with anti- (like Antichristus) and German borrowings from Latin or Greek. Doublet of ent-.
Pronunciation
Prefix
anti-
- anti-
Derived terms
Further reading
- “anti-” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Hungarian
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”).[1]
Pronunciation
Prefix
anti-
- anti-
Derived terms
References
Ido
Etymology
Borrowed from English anti-, French anti-, German anti-, Italian anti-, Spanish anti-, Russian анти- (anti-), all ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí).
Pronunciation
Prefix
anti-
- anti-, contra-, counter- (for use mainly in scientific terms)
- anti- + toxino (“toxin”) → antitoxino (“antitoxin”)
Synonyms
Derived terms
Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch anti-, from Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-, “against”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈan.ti/
- Rhymes: -ti
- Hyphenation: an‧ti
Prefix
anti-
- anti-
- against, opposed to
- counteracting, neutralizing
- the opposite of what is typically expected.
- physically opposite, reverse in position or direction
- a rival or counterpart to
- (particle physics) composed of antimatter
- (immunology) reacting with immunoglobins found in the specified animal
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
Italian
Etymology 1
From Latin ante (“before”).
Prefix
anti-
- anti-
- ante-
Etymology 2
From Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-, “against”).
Prefix
anti-
- anti-
Derived terms
Anagrams
Malay
Etymology
From Dutch anti-, from Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-, “against”).
Pronunciation
Prefix
anti- (Jawi spelling انت)
- anti-
- Antonym: pro-
- Antikomunisme ― Anti-communism
- Anti-Amerika ― Anti-America
Usage notes
Further reading
Anagrams
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”).
Prefix
anti-
- anti-
Derived terms
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”).
Prefix
anti-
- anti-
Derived terms
References
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”).
Pronunciation
Prefix
anti-
- anti-
- (particle physics) anti- (related to antiparticles or antimatter)
- (immunology) anti-
Derived terms
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”).
Prefix
anti-
- anti-
Derived terms
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”).
Prefix
anti-
- anti-; against, opposite, protecting against
Derived terms
Further reading
Swedish
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”).
Prefix
anti-
- anti-; against, opposite, protecting against
Derived terms
Anagrams