antique

Alternative forms

• anticke (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from French antique (“ancient, old”), from Latin antiquus (“former, earlier, ancient, old”), from ante (“before”); see ante- and antic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ænˈtiːk/

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• Rhymes: -iːk

Adjective

antique (comparative antiquer, superlative antiquest)

1. Old, used especially of furniture and household items; out of date.
   • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, in The Tremarn Case‎:

     “There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom. […]”

Noun

antique (plural antiques)

1. An old piece of furniture, household item, or other similar item.
2. (figuratively, mildly pejorative) An old person.

Verb

antique (third-person singular simple present antiques, present participle antiquing, simple past and past participle antiqued)

1. (intransitive) To shop for antiques; to search for antiques.
2. (transitive) To make an object appear to be an antique in some way.

Further reading

• antique in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• antique in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• quinate

Etymology

From Old French antique, from antic, borrowed from Latin antīquus. Confer also the inherited Old French antive, from the Latin feminine antīqua, which analogically influenced a masculine form antif (compare a similar occurrence in Spanish antiguo).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.tik/

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Adjective

antique (plural antiques)

1. ancient
2. relating to the Antiquity

Further reading

• “antique” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• taquine, taquiné

Adjective

antique f pl

1. Feminine plural of adjective antiquo.

Anagrams

• nequità

Adjective

antīque

1. vocative masculine singular of antīquus

References

• antique in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• antique in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• antique in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette