delante
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish denante (de + enante); enante from Late Latin in ante, from Latin in + ante.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /deˈlante/ [d̪eˈlãn̪.t̪e]
- Rhymes: -ante
- Syllabification: de‧lan‧te
Adverb
delante
- in front of, before (spatially)
- forward, forwards (with hacia preceding it)
- ahead (with por preceding it)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “delante”, 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