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antedate en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈæntiˌdeɪt/ (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti Proto-Italic *anti Latin ante Classical Latin ante-lbor. English ante- English date English antedate From ante- + date.

Meanings

  1. Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.
  2. (obsolete) anticipation

antedate en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈæntiˌdeɪt/ (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti Proto-Italic *anti Latin ante Classical Latin ante-lbor. English ante- English date English antedate From ante- + date.

Meanings

  1. To occur before an event or time; to exist further back in time.
    • Actually, mathematical models of multi-sector growth models antedate the Harrod-Domar and Solow-Swan aggregate models. 2010, Giancarlo Gandolfo, Economic Dynamics, 4th edition, Springer, page 311:
    • We therefore turn to the question whether defendant's prior convictions for burglary and attempted burglary could be used as the basis for an enhancement under [California Penal Code] sections 667 and 1192.7. Both prior convictions antedate the effective date of section 667. 1986, People v. Calio, 42 Cal.3d 639,644:
    • I suppose you know all about the fearful myths antedating the coming of man to the earth—the Yog-Sothoth and Cthulhu cycles—which are hinted at in the Necronomicon. 1931, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, chapter 2, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
    • Dimensional analysis is a serious business in the natural sciences, where what you're measuring actually exists […]; and it even has a theorem that goes with it (Buckingham's #92;pi theorem, which like any good mathematical theorem with a name attached, apparently antedates Buckingham). 2024, Jeremy Bay Rudd, A Practical Guide to Macroeconomics, Cambridge University Press, page 281:
  2. To assign a date to a document or action earlier than the actual date.
    • Tomorrow when you leav’st, what wilt thou say? / Wilt thou then antedate some new-made vow? 1633, John Donne, Woman's Constancy:
  3. To find earlier citational evidence for a term.
    • Furthermore, while OED entries are generally regarded as a good indication of when terms were first used in English, for 5 of the 7 terms the present research has been able to antedate OED’s earliest attestations, usually by a decade or more. 2017 January, James Lambert, “A multitude of “lishes”: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, volume 38, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
antedates Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
antedated Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
antedated Tense=Past lexicographic
antedating Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Antonyms

overdate · postdate · postdate · postdate · overdate

Deriveds

antedater · antedatable

Synonyms

foredate · predate · antedate · backdate · foredate · predate · precede · backdate · predate · antedate · preexist

Translations (18)

ro antedata (To assign a date earlier than the actual date; to backdate) · pl antydatować (To assign a date earlier than the actual date; to backdate) · fi edeltää (To occur before an event or time; to exist further back in time) · ru дати́ровать задним числом (To assign a date earlier than the actual date; to backdate) · nl antedateren (To assign a date earlier than the actual date; to backdate) · cy ôl-ddyddio (To assign a date earlier than the actual date; to backdate) · cs antedatovat (To assign a date earlier than the actual date; to backdate) · pt pré-datar (To assign a date earlier than the actual date; to backdate) · ru предше́ствовать (To occur before an event or time; to exist further back in time) · uk передува́ти (To occur before an event or time; to exist further back in time) · es antepasar (desus.) (To occur before an event or time; to exist further back in time) · fr antidater (To assign a date earlier than the actual date; to backdate) · es antedatar (To assign a date earlier than the actual date; to backdate) · pt antedatar (To assign a date earlier than the actual date; to backdate) · bg предшествам (To occur before an event or time; to exist further back in time) · pl antedatować (To assign a date earlier than the actual date; to backdate) · io predatizar (To assign a date earlier than the actual date; to backdate) · bg поставям по-раншна дата на документ (To assign a date earlier than the actual date; to backdate)