antipode

See also: Antipode

English

Etymology

Back-formation from antipodes.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæn.tɪ.poʊd/

Noun

antipode (plural antipodes)

1. Something directly opposite or diametrically opposed.

   Synonym: antipous (rare)

   Hyponym: antithesis (opposite idea)

   • 1704, David Crawford, Love at First Sight: A Comedy‎^[1], London: R. Basset, page 58:

     The very Reverse of a Wit. The Antipode of Sense.

   • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 167:

     In many ways, Memphis was the antipode of Boston.

Derived terms

• antipodal
• antipodean

Translations

something directly opposite

• Armenian: հակոտնյա (hy) (hakotnya)
• Catalan: antípoda (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 對蹠點／对蹠点 (zh) (duìzhídiǎn)

• Esperanto: antipodo
• Finnish: antipodi (fi)
• German: Antipode (de) m
• Greek: αντίποδας (el) m (antípodas)
• Japanese: 対蹠 (ja) (taisho), 対極 (taikyoku), 正反対 (ja) (seihantai), 真逆 (ja) (magyaku)
• Norwegian: diametral motsats c, diametral motsetning c, rak motsats c, rak motsetning c
• Polish: antypody (pl) m pl (only in the plural)
• Portuguese: antípoda (pt) f
• Russian: антипо́д (ru) m (antipód)
• Serbo-Croatian: antipod (sh) m
• Spanish: antípoda (es)
• Swedish: diametral (sv) motsats (sv) c, (maths) antipod (sv) c
• Turkish: antipot
• Zazaki: antipot

Further reading

• antipode on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• “antipode”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• adeption, antidope

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin antipodes, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀντίποδες (antípodes), from ἀντί (antí, “against”) + πόδες (pódes), nominative plural of πούς (poús, “foot”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

antipode m (plural antipodes)

1. (especially in plural) antipode
2. opposite

   deux hommes aux antipodes

   two totally opposite men

Derived terms

• manchot antipode

Further reading

• “antipode”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin antipodes, from Ancient Greek ἀντίποδες (antípodes), from ἀντί (antí, “against”) + πόδες (pódes), nominative plural of πούς (poús, “foot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /anˈti.po.de/
• Rhymes: -ipode
• Hyphenation: an‧tì‧po‧de

Noun

antipode m or f (plural antipodi)

1. antipode

Derived terms

• agli antipodi
• antipode ottico

Further reading

• antipode in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• pedinato, piatendo