antecedent
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See also: antécédent
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English antecedent, borrowed from Old French antecedent, from Latin antecēdēns (“going before”), from antecēdō (“to precede; excel; surpass”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]antecedent (not comparable)
- Earlier, either in time or in order.
- Synonyms: precedent, predecessive, preceding
- Antonym: successive
- an antecedent cause
- an event antecedent to the Biblical Flood
- Presumptive.
- an antecedent improbability
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]earlier in time or order
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Noun
[edit]Examples (linguistics: expression referred to by pronoun) |
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antecedent (plural antecedents)
- Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.
- An ancestor.
- 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 3, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
- The Boston agent added that this clerk was a young man of wholly unquestioned veracity and reliability, of known antecedents and long with the company.
- (grammar) A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun.
- 1926, H. W. Fowler, “that rel. pron.”, in A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, reprint of the first edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 634, column 2:
- [W]hereas it might seem orderly that, as who is appropriated to persons, so that should have been appropriated to things […] the antecedent of that is often personal
- 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 117:
- One such condition can be formulated in terms of the c-command relation defined in (9) above: the relevant condition is given in (16) below:
(16) C-COMMAND CONDITION ON ANAPHORS
An anaphor must have an appropriate c-commanding antecedent
- (logic) The conditional part of a hypothetical proposition, i.e. , where is the antecedent, and is the consequent.
- (logic) The first of two subsets of a sequent, consisting of all the sequent's formulae which are valuated as true.
- (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (mathematics) The first term of a ratio, i.e. the term a in the ratio a:b, the other being the consequent.
- (chiefly in the plural) Previous principles, conduct, history, etc.
Synonyms
[edit]- (something which precedes): precedent, precursor
- (an ancestor): ascendant, ascendent, forebear, forefather, forerunner, predecessor, progenitor
Antonyms
[edit]- (antonym(s) of “in logic”): consequent, (for sequents) succedent
- (antonym(s) of “in grammar”): anaphor
Holonyms
[edit]- See Thesaurus:argument form
- (in logic): conditional
- (in grammar): referent
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]any thing that precedes another thing
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ancestor
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word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun
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conditional part of a hypothetical proposition
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The first of two subsets of a sequent
The first term of a ratio
Previous principles, conduct, history, etc.
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See also
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French antécédent, from Latin antecēdēns (“go before”), from antecēdere (“to go or come before”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]antecedent n (plural antecedenten, diminutive antecedentje n)
- antecedent (thing that precedes; prior fact, background fact)
- (linguistics) antecedent (referent of a word, esp. of a pronoun)
- (logic) antecedent (condition part of a proposition)
Antonyms
[edit]- (antonym(s) of “logic”): (consequent)
- (antonym(s) of “linguistics”): (anafoor)
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]antecēdent
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French antécédent, from Latin antecedens.
Adjective
[edit]antecedent m or n (feminine singular antecedentă, masculine plural antecedenți, feminine and neuter plural antecedente)
Declension
[edit]Declension of antecedent
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | antecedent | antecedentă | antecedenți | antecedente | ||
definite | antecedentul | antecedenta | antecedenții | antecedentele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | antecedent | antecedente | antecedenți | antecedente | ||
definite | antecedentului | antecedentei | antecedenților | antecedentelor |
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