anti-
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-, “against”).
Prefix
anti-
- Against, hostile to.
- Contrasting with the norm.
- Opposite of, reverse.
- Physically opposite: applied to mountain ranges.
- Anti-Lebanon, Anti-Taurus, Anti-Atlas
- Counteracting, neutralizing.
- (particle physics) Related to antiparticles.
- (immunology) That reacts with immunoglobins found in the specified animal.
Usage notes
- Anti- should not be confused with ante-, which is a prefix of Latin 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.
Antonyms
- (against, hostile to): pro-
Derived terms
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- antiphosphoserine
- antiphosphospecific
Translations
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Catalan
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈantɪ]
Synonyms
Derived terms
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Danish
Prefix
anti-
- anti-
Derived terms
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Dutch
Etymology
Ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɑn.ti/
Audio (file)
Derived terms
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Finnish
Derived terms
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑ̃.ti/
Derived terms
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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
Pronunciation
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Derived terms
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Hungarian
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɒnti]
- Hyphenation: an‧ti
Derived terms
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See also
- Appendix:Hungarian prefixes
References
- Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
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
- IPA(key): /ˈan.ti/
Prefix
anti-
- anti-, contra-, counter- (for use mainly in scientific terms)
- anti- + toxino (“toxin”) → antitoxino (“antitoxin”)
Synonyms
Derived terms
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Italian
Etymology 2
From Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-, “against”).
Derived terms
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Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”).
Derived terms
References
- “anti-” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”).
Derived terms
References
- “anti-” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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Portuguese
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”).
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈɐ̃ti/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈɐ̃tʃi/, IPA(key): /ˈɐ̃tʃ/
Derived terms
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Spanish
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”).
Derived terms
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