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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
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
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Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.
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(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
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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:
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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:
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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
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)