antes

antes

1. plural of ante

antes

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of ante

• Teans, Tenas, etnas, nates, neats, netas, senat, stane, stean

• antia (Parres, Sobrescobiu), anties (Casu), antias (Palacios del Sil, Eo-Navia)

• IPA^(key): /ˈantes/ [ˈãn̪.t̪es]
• Rhymes: -antes
• Syllabification: an‧tes

antes

1. before, beforehand (in a remote time, while enantes is a recent past)

   Antonym: dempués

antes f

1. plural of ante

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese antes, from ante with the adverbial -s,^[1] the former from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti.

• IPA^(key): /ˈantes/ [ˈan̪.t̪es̺]
• Rhymes: -antes
• Hyphenation: an‧tes

antes

1. before, prior to

   Antonym: despois

• ante

antes

1. plural of ante

Inherited from Old Spanish antes, from ante with the adverbial -s,^[1] the former from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti.

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antes (Hebrew spelling אנטיס)^[2]

1. earlier; before; sooner; previously; formerly; beforehand (at an earlier time) [ca. 1510^[3]]
   • 1982, Annual‎^[1], volumes 17–18, page 128:

     Avras de saver ke ize la conosensia con el vekil de la caza ke apartenia a Rafael Aftalion, un rikinyon de Vidin, ke murio antes tres anyos.

     You shall have to know that the knowledge helped with the representative of the house belonging to Rafael Aftalion, a gentleman from Vidin, who died three years earlier.

   • 2006, Matilda Koén-Sarano, Por el plazer de kontar‎^[2], page 434:

     "A!" le dishi, "Oy no es un día mazalozo… Poko antes me se rompió el mango de la chanta…"

     ‘Gah!’ somebody said to another, ‘Today is not a lucky day… A little earlier my suitcase handle broke.’

Uncertain. Pokorny^[1] suggests a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- (“front, front side”), like the cognate Latin ante (“before; in front”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈan.teːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈan̪.t̪es]

antēs m pl (genitive antium); third declension

1. rows of vines, of plants or of soldiers

Third-declension noun (i-stem), plural only.

• “antes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• antes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• tensa

antes

1. alternative form of ante
   • 1450, Gomes Eanes de Zurara, “Como o Autor falla nas grandes diuisoẽs que atuia antre os mouros da cidade, e das cousas q̃ acontecerom no outro anno passado” (chapter Lviij), in Cronica de tomada da Cidade de Cepta por Elrey dom Joaõ o primº, pages 123v–124r:

     […] mas aquelle / Almocadem nunqua falou palaura, antes meteo as maos de sob sua aljuba, que trazia, e a contenenca m̃ triste, e os olhos, baixos contra a aterra sospirando muito amiude se leixou estar acerqua de duas horas, sem nunca dar nehuã reposta a cousa que lhe preguntassem.

     But that Almocadem never said a word; earlier he put his hands beneath his jubbah, which he was bringing, and he has a very sad appearance: the eyes [looking] down on the earth; sighing very often; around two hours he ceased standing, without ever giving any response to whatever they asked him.

• Galician: antes
• Portuguese: antes

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “antes”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

antes

1. alternative form of ante
   • c. 1275, Alfonso X, General Estoria Primera parte, (ed. by Pedro Sánchez Prieto-Borja, 2002, Alcalá de Henares: Universidad de Alcalá de Henares):

     E en aquel departimiento que fue fecho de los lenguages, assí como fue la gente sacada del lenguaje que antes avié, assí estidieron todos como en punto o en somo de seer sacados todos de los sentidos que antes avién, e assí como de nuevo les vinieron los sesos e los sentidos que después ovieron, […]

     (On the Tower of Babel) Then, in that split of languages, in the same way the people were robbed of the one language they had, so were all almost robbed of all their senses, and once their mind and senses came again to them, […]

• Ladino: antes, אנטיס
• Spanish: antes

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “antes”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume I, Chapel Hill, page 39

Derived from Spanish antes and Portuguese antes and Kabuverdianu antis.

antes

1. earlier
2. before (at an earlier time)
3. formerly

• (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ˈɐ̃.tis/, /ɐ̃t͡s/

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• Hyphenation: an‧tes

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese antes, from ante with the adverbial -s,^[1] the former from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti.

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antes (not comparable)

1. before (at an earlier time)

   Antonym: depois

2. in the past; previously

   Synonyms: anteriormente, antigamente

   Antonym: futuramente

3. preferably, better, rather

   Synonyms: melhor, preferivelmente

   Antes só do que mal acompanhado.

   Better alone than in bad company.

• ante-

antes m pl (plural only)

1. (historical) Antes (Slavic tribe from the lower Danube in the early Middle Ages)

• IPA^(key): /ˈantes/ [ˈãn̪.t̪es]

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• Rhymes: -antes
• Syllabification: an‧tes

Inherited from Old Spanish antes, from ante with the adverbial -s,^[1] the former from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti.

antes

1. earlier; before; sooner; previously; formerly; beforehand (at an earlier time)

   Synonyms: anteriormente, previamente, a priori

   Antonyms: después, luego, posteriormente, a posteriori

   poco antes ― shortly before

   Nos conocimos antes, ¿te acuerdas?

   We met before, remember?

   La embajadora llegó antes de lo esperado.

   The ambassador arrived sooner than expected

2. soon (in certain phrases)

   Quería que lo supieras cuanto antes.

   I wanted to let you know as soon as possible.

   Ven a mi casa lo antes posible.

   Come over to my place as soon as possible.

3. ahead (temporally), ahead of (when followed by de)

   Bueno, si solo hubieras llamado antes como te dije, ni siquiera estaríamos en esta situación.

   Well, if you had just called ahead like I told you to, we wouldn't even be in this situation.

4. once, formerly (in the past)

   Synonyms: antiguamente, antaño

   Antes todos tenían buscapersonas.

   Everyone used to have pagers.

5. first (before a condition is fulfilled)
6. rather, sooner (used to specify a preference)

   Antes morir que perder.

   I'd rather die than lose.

   Acontece tener un padre un hijo feo y sin gracia alguna, y el amor que le tiene le pone una venda en los ojos para que no vea sus faltas, antes las juzga por discreciones y lindezas y las cuenta a sus amigos por agudezas y donaires.

   It happens that a father has an ugly and entirely impolite son, and the love he has for him blindfolds his eyes so that he does not see his faults; rather, he judges them to be things of wisdom and beauty, and he recounts them to his friends to be things of sharpness and grace.

antes de

1. before (earlier than) (triggers the subjunctive in subordinate clauses)

   Antonym: después

   antes de 1910 ― before 1910

   antes de que pudiera responder ― before I could reply

   Antes de ver el documental, no sabíamos nada del tema.

   Before watching the documentary, we didn't know anything about the issue.

• → Zoogocho Zapotec: antzle

antes m pl

1. plural of ante

• “antes”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

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