antaño
See also: antano
Spanish
FWOTD – 5 October 2014
Etymology
From Latin ante annum (“before [this] year”). Compare Asturian antaño, Catalan antany, Extremaduran antañu, Portuguese antanho, French antan, Romanian anțărț.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /anˈtaɲo/, [ãn̪ˈt̪aɲo]
- Rhymes: -aɲo
- Hyphenation: an‧ta‧ño
Adverb
antaño
- (now rare) last year
- 1760s, Pedro Ángel de Tarazona; Francisco Generas, El Pensador Matritense, volume 4, page 256:
- En una Comedia, que representamos antaño en las Fiestas de Baco, […]
- In a comedy, which we performed last year in the Festivals of Bacchus, […]
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- in the past, in the old days, of yore
- Synonym: antiguamente
Derived terms
- antañoso
Noun
antaño m (plural antaños)
- the distant past
- Mi abuelo me contó de la vida de antaño.
- My grandfather told me of life in the old days.
- 1999, Arístides Rojas, “Crónica de Caracas”, in El Nacional, page 21:
- Un mismo alimiento nutría a los moradores de la Caracas de antaño, y ricos y pobres solicitaban la misma comida en el mercado general.
- The same food nourished the inhabitants of Caracas in the old days, and rich and poor people asked for the same food in the common market.
References
- “antaño” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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