anti-
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-, “against”). Doublet of and- and ante-.
Pronunciation
[edit]Prefix
[edit]anti-
- Against, opposed to.
- Synonym: counter-
- Antonym: pro-
- anti- + abortion → antiabortion
- anti- + racism → antiracism
- Counteracting, neutralizing.
- Synonym: counter-
- anti- + aircraft → antiaircraft
- anti- + freeze → antifreeze
- anti- + bacterial → antibacterial
- The opposite of what is typically expected.
- Physically opposite, reverse in position or direction.
- anti- + clockwise → anticlockwise
- anti- + Arctic → Antarctic
- A rival or counterpart to.
- anti- + pope → antipope (“a person who claims to be the real pope”)
- anti- + Christ → Antichrist
- (particle physics) Composed of antimatter.
- anti- + electron → antielectron
- anti- + galaxy → antigalaxy
- (immunology) Reacting with immunoglobins found in the specified animal.
- anti- + rabbit → antirabbit
- anti- + horse → antihorse
Usage notes
[edit]- anti- should not be confused with the prefix ante- of Latin (not Greek) origin meaning “before”. (However, anti- does exist as a variant spelling of ante- in some borrowed words, such as anticipate and antipasto, but this spelling cannot be used to coin English words.)
- anti- sometimes becomes ant- before words beginning in a vowel, as does ante-: antacid.
- In British English, the anti- forms are often hyphenated as evidenced by OED's many anti- entries using hyphen. However, the exact convention significantly varies.
- GPO manual recommends using a hyphen when prefixing capitalized words except when usage dictates otherwise.[1] This is matched by usual practice: anti-American or anti-Christian.
Derived terms
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See also
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 6. Compounding Rules in U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual, govinfo.gov
Further reading
[edit]- “anti-”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “anti-”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “anti-”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN. -- lists many derived terms
Anagrams
[edit]Basque
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Prefix
[edit]anti-
Derived terms
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Prefix
[edit]anti-
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “anti-” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “anti-”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “anti-” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
Czech
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Prefix
[edit]anti-
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- anti- in Slovník afixů užívaných v češtině, 2017
Danish
[edit]Prefix
[edit]anti-
Derived terms
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-).
Pronunciation
[edit]Prefix
[edit]anti-
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Indonesian: anti-
Esperanto
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Derived from Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-, “against”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Prefix
[edit]anti-
Derived terms
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Internationalism (see English anti-), ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-).
Pronunciation
[edit]Prefix
[edit]anti-
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “anti-”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-, “against”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Prefix
[edit]anti-
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “anti-”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-, “against”).
Prefix
[edit]anti-
Derived terms
[edit]From
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Further reading
[edit]- “anti-”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
Garo
[edit]Etymology
[edit](This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Classifier
[edit]anti-
- classifier for weeks
Synonyms
[edit]German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-, “against”), influenced by Latin borrowings from Greek beginning with anti- (like Antichristus) and German borrowings from Latin or Greek.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Prefix
[edit]anti-
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “anti-” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Prefix
[edit]anti-
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Ido
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English anti-, French anti-, German anti-, Italian anti-, Spanish anti-, Russian анти- (anti-), all ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí).
Pronunciation
[edit]Prefix
[edit]anti-
- anti-, contra-, counter- (for use mainly in scientific terms)
- anti- + toxino (“toxin”) → antitoxino (“antitoxin”)
Synonyms
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[edit]Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Dutch anti-, from Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-, “against”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Prefix
[edit]anti-
- anti-
- against, opposed to
- counteracting, neutralizing
- the opposite of what is typically expected.
- physically opposite, reverse in position or direction
- a rival or counterpart to
- (particle physics) composed of antimatter
- (immunology) reacting with immunoglobins found in the specified animal
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “anti-” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Prefix
[edit]anti-
Etymology 2
[edit]From Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-, “against”).
Prefix
[edit]anti-
Derived terms
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[edit]Malay
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Dutch anti-, from Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-, “against”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Prefix
[edit]anti- (Jawi spelling انت)
Usage notes
[edit]- Before proper nouns and numerals, this prefix must be followed by a dash '-'.
- Before other types of nouns, no dash is needed.
Further reading
[edit]- “anti-” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Anagrams
[edit]Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”).
Prefix
[edit]anti-
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “anti-” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”).
Prefix
[edit]anti-
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “anti-” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”).
Pronunciation
[edit]
Prefix
[edit]anti-
- anti-
- (particle physics) anti- (related to antiparticles or antimatter)
- (immunology) anti-
Derived terms
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”).
Prefix
[edit]anti-
Derived terms
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”).
Prefix
[edit]anti-
- anti-; against, opposite, protecting against
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “anti-”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “against”).
Prefix
[edit]anti-
- anti-; against, opposite, protecting against
Derived terms
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂en-
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English doublets
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- en:Immunology
- en:Antimatter
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- Rhymes:Esperanto/anti
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- Finnish internationalisms
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- Rhymes:Indonesian/ti
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- id:Particle physics
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- Rhymes:Malay/anti
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐ̃t͡ʃi
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