anta

From Latin antae (“pilasters”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈæn.tə/

anta (plural antae or antas)

1. (architecture) A kind of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.

• in antis

• AANT, Anat, Nata, Tana, anat., naat, taan, tana

• ante

Probably from Latin antae (“jamb”); alternatively from a substrate Indo-European language[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈanta̝/

anta m (plural antas)

1. dolmen, menhir, megalith; landmark

   Synonyms: arca, forno

2. large vertical stone used in the construction of drystone walls

   Synonym: chanto

• Anta
• Antas
• Antas de Ulla

• “anta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “anta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “anta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “anta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “anta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

antā̀ f (possessed form antàr̃)

1. Alternative spelling of hanta

• IPA^(key): /ˈan.ta/

From Latin antae f pl.

anta f (plural ante)

1. door (of furniture)
2. shutter (of window)
3. sash (of window)
4. panel

• sportello
• pannello

From the suffix -anta common to quaranta (“forty”), cinquanta (“fifty”), sessanta (“sixty”), settanta (“seventy”), ottanta (“eighty”), and novanta (“ninety”).

anta m pl (plural only)

1. (informal) forties, sixties, seventies... (in someone's age)

• nata
• tana

From Proto-Finnic *antadak.

anta

1. give

an- +‎ ta; from German [Term?]

anta (imperative anta, present tense antar, passive antas, simple past antok, past participle antatt, present participle antakende)

1. to assume, presume
2. to accept, approve

• antagelig, antakelig
• antagelse, antakelse

• “anta” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

anta m

1. end
2. goal
3. top

anta n

1. intestine, tharm

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɐ̃.ta/, /ˈɐ̃.tɐ/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɐ̃.tɐ/
• Hyphenation: an‧ta

anta

From Old Portuguese anta, from Latin antae pl.

anta f (plural antas)

1. (architecture) anta
2. dolmen (prehistoric megalithic tomb)

• (dolmen): dólmen

anta (Tapirus indicus)

From Arabic لَمْتَة‎ (lamta).

anta f (plural antas)

1. tapir (large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae)
2. (figuratively) a stupid person

   Você é uma anta!

   You are an idiot!

• (tapir): tapir

From ante.

• IPA^(key): /ˈanta/, [ˈãn̪t̪a]

anta f (plural antas)

1. feminine equivalent of ante; moose, elk
2. (Bolivia) tapir (large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae.)

• (tapir): tapir, anteburro, sachavaca, danta, ante

• “anta” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Apocopic form of antaga, calqued from Middle Low German annemen or German annehmen. All compounds with the verb ta have gone through apocope and those forms are now the standard ones, see also avta/avtaga, inta/intaga and överta/övertaga. Cognate with Danish antage, Norwegian Bokmål anta, Norwegian Nynorsk anta, antake, antaka. Morphologically the same as native Swedish åta (åtaga) and English ontake.

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anta

1. to suppose, to presume, to guess

   Jag antar att det är dags att köpa en ny kaffebryggare.

   I presume it's time to buy a new coffee machine.

2. to accept an offer

   Schackspelaren antog erbjudandet om remi efter att ha funderat på det.

   The chessplayer accepted the offer of a draw after having thought about it.

3. (especially in the past participle) to accept /to a school etc./

   Jag har blivit antagen till Harvard!

   I've been accepted to Harvard!

• antagning
• antagande

• anta in Nationalencyklopedin (needs an authorization fee).
• anta in Svenska Akademiens ordbok online.

• IPA^(key): /ʔan.ˈta/, /ˈʔan.ta/

antá or anta

1. rancidity; rancid odor