anti-

See also: anti and Anti

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-, against).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /æntiː/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ænti/, /æntaɪ/

Prefix

anti-

  1. Against, hostile to.
    antiabortion
  2. Contrasting with the norm.
    antihero
  3. Opposite of, reverse.
    anticlockwise
  4. Physically opposite: applied to mountain ranges.
    Anti-Lebanon, Anti-Taurus, Anti-Atlas
  5. Counteracting, neutralizing.
    antibacterial
  6. (particle physics) Related to antiparticles.
    antimatter, antiatom
  7. (immunology) That reacts with immunoglobins found in the specified animal.
    antirabbit, antihorse

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.
    antacid

Antonyms

  • (against, hostile to): pro-

Derived terms

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Translations

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See also

Anagrams


Catalan

Prefix

anti-

  1. anti

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈantɪ]

Prefix

anti-

  1. anti-

Synonyms

Derived terms

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Czech_words_prefixed_with_anti-' title='Category:Czech words prefixed with anti-'>Czech words prefixed with anti-</a>

Further reading

  • anti- in Slovník afixů užívaných v češtině, 2017

Danish

Prefix

anti-

  1. anti-

Derived terms

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Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑn.ti/
  • (file)

Prefix

anti-

  1. anti-

Derived terms

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Finnish

Prefix

anti-

  1. anti-

Derived terms

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Anagrams


French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑ̃.ti/

Prefix

anti-

  1. anti-

Derived terms

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:French_words_prefixed_with_anti-' title='Category:French words prefixed with anti-'>French words prefixed with anti-</a>

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

  • (file)

Prefix

anti-

  1. anti-

Derived terms

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:German_words_prefixed_with_anti-' title='Category:German words prefixed with anti-'>German words prefixed with anti-</a>

Hungarian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, against).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɒnti]
  • Hyphenation: an‧ti

Prefix

anti-

  1. anti-

Derived terms

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Hungarian_words_prefixed_with_anti-' title='Category:Hungarian words prefixed with anti-'>Hungarian words prefixed with anti-</a>

See also

  • Appendix:Hungarian prefixes

References

  1. 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-

  1. anti-, contra-, counter- (for use mainly in scientific terms)
    anti- + toxino (toxin)antitoxino (antitoxin)

Synonyms

Derived terms

Category Ido words prefixed with anti- not found

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin ante (before)

Prefix

anti-

  1. anti-
  2. ante-

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-, against).

Prefix

anti-

  1. anti-

Derived terms

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, against).

Prefix

anti-

  1. anti-

Derived terms

References

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Norwegian_Bokm%C3%A5l_words_prefixed_with_anti-' title='Category:Norwegian Bokmål words prefixed with anti-'>Norwegian Bokmål words prefixed with anti-</a>

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, against).

Prefix

anti-

  1. anti-

Derived terms

References

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Norwegian_Nynorsk_words_prefixed_with_anti-' title='Category:Norwegian Nynorsk words prefixed with anti-'>Norwegian Nynorsk words prefixed with anti-</a>

Portuguese

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, against).

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈɐ̃ti/
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈɐ̃tʃi/, IPA(key): /ˈɐ̃tʃ/

Prefix

anti-

  1. anti-

Derived terms

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Portuguese_words_prefixed_with_anti-' title='Category:Portuguese words prefixed with anti-'>Portuguese words prefixed with anti-</a>

Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, against).

Prefix

anti-

  1. anti-; against, opposite, protecting against

Derived terms

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Spanish_words_prefixed_with_anti-' title='Category:Spanish words prefixed with anti-'>Spanish words prefixed with anti-</a>
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