antedate

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈæntiˌdeɪt/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.
  2. anticipation obsolete
动词 v.
  1. To occur before an event or time; to exist further back in time.
    — 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.
  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?
  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.

词形变化

antedates present,singular,third-person antedating participle,present antedated participle,past antedated past

词汇关系

衍生词
antedatable antedater

词源

词源 1
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
Classical Latin ante
Classical Latin ante-lbor.
English ante-
English date
English antedate
From ante- + date.
词源 2
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
Classical Latin ante
Classical Latin ante-lbor.
English ante-
English date
English antedate
From ante- + date.
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