anta

See also: ANTA, ȧnta, äntä, -anta, anta-, and -anță

English

Etymology

From Latin antae (“pilasters”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈæn.tə/

Noun

anta (plural antae or antas)

  1. (architecture) A kind of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for anta in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Hausa

Noun

antā̀ f (possessed form antàr̃)

  1. Alternative spelling of hanta

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈan.ta/

Etymology 1

From Latin antae f pl.

Noun

anta f (plural ante)

  1. door of furniture
  2. shutter (of window)
  3. sash (of window)

Etymology 2

From the suffix -anta common to quaranta (“forty”), cinquanta (“fifty”), sessanta (“sixty”), settanta (“seventy”), ottanta (“eighty”), and novanta (“ninety”).

Noun

anta m pl (plural only)

  1. (informal) forties, sixties, seventies... (in someone's age)

Anagrams

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *antadak.

Verb

anta

  1. give

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

an- +‎ ta; from German [Term?]

Verb

anta (imperative anta, present tense antar, passive antas, simple past antok, past participle antatt, present participle antakende)

  1. to assume, presume
  2. to accept, approve

Derived terms

References

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

anta m

  1. end
  2. goal
  3. top

Noun

anta n

  1. intestine, tharm

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈɐ̃.ta/, /ˈɐ̃.tɐ/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈɐ̃.tɐ/
  • Hyphenation: an‧ta
anta

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese anta, from Latin antas.

Noun

anta f (plural antas)

  1. (architecture) anta
  2. dolmen (prehistoric megalithic tomb)
Synonyms
anta (Tapirus indicus)

Etymology 2

From Arabic لَمْتَة‎ (lamta).

Noun

anta f (plural antas)

  1. tapir (large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae)
  2. (figuratively) a stupid person
    Você é uma anta!
    You are an idiot!
Synonyms

Spanish

Etymology

From ante

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈan.ta/

Noun

anta f (plural antas, masculine ante, masculine plural ante)

  1. (femenine) moose, elk
  2. (Bolivia) tapir (large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae.)

Synonyms

Swedish

Etymology

Apocopic form of antaga, from an (“on”) +‎ taga (“take”). All compounds with the verb ta have gone through apocope and those forms are now the standard ones, see also avta/avtaga, inta/intaga and överta/övertaga. Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål anta, Norwegian Nynorsk anta, antake, antaka and English ontake.

Pronunciation

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Verb

anta

  1. to suppose; to presume
    Jag antar att det är dags att köpa en ny kaffebryggare.
    I presume it's time to buy a new coffee machine.
  2. to accept an offer
    Schackspelaren antog erbjudandet om remi efter att ha funderat på det.
    The chessplayer accepted the offer of a draw after having thought about it.

Conjugation

Tagalog

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔan.ˈta/

Noun

anta

  1. rancidity
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