ab ante

See also: Abante

Latin

Etymology

From ab (“away from”) +‎ ante (“before”).

Adverb

ab ante (not comparable) (Late Latin)

1. (proscribed) in front, before

Preposition

ab ante (+ accusative) (Late Latin)

1. (proscribed) away from before, in front of, before
   • c. 3rd–4th century CE, Vetus Latina, Genesis 3:8; republished as Bonifatius Fischer, editor, Vetus Latina. Die Reste der altlateinischen Bibel, volume 1, 1949, page 63:

     et absconderunt se Adam et mulier eius abante faciem Domini Dei

     and Adam and his wife hid themselves away from before the face of God

   • 5th c. CE, Sergius (grammarian)

     Nemo enim dicit de post forum, nemo enim ab ante.

     Nobody [who speaks correctly] says 'de post the forum', nor 'ab ante' it.

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: ãnti ⇒ nãnti
  • Romanian: ainte ⇒ înainte
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: avanti, avante (obsolete, poetic) ⇒ davanti, davante
  • Sicilian: avanti
• North Italian:
  • Ligurian: avànti
  • Romansch: avant, avon, aunz, avaunt
  • Venetan: vanti ⇒ invanti
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: avant
  • Old French: avant, avaunt
    • French: avant
    • Norman: avant
    • → Middle English: avaunt
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: avant
    • → Ibero-Romance:
      • Galician: avante
      • Mirandese: abante
      • Portuguese: avante
      • Spanish: avante
        • → Tagalog: abante
  • Occitan: avant
• Vulgar Latin:
  • *abanteāre (see there for further descendants)
  • *abantius
    • Catalan: abans
    • Occitan: abans
    • Sicilian: avanzi

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “abante”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 11

Further reading

• “abante”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• abante in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• abante in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.