ab ante

From ab (“away from”) +‎ ante (“before”).

ab ante (not comparable) (Late Latin)

1. (proscribed) in front, before

ab ante (+ accusative) (Late Latin)

1. (proscribed) away from before, in front of, before
   • c. 3rd–4th century CE, Vetus Latina, Genesis 3:8; republished as Bonifatius Fischer, editor, Vetus Latina. Die Reste der altlateinischen Bibel, volume 1, 1949, page 63:

     et absconderunt se Adam et mulier eius abante faciem Domini Dei

     and Adam and his wife hid themselves away from before the face of God

   • 5th c. CE, Sergius (grammarian)[1]

     Nemo enim dicit de post forum, nemo enim ab ante.

     Nobody [who speaks correctly] says 'de post the forum', nor 'ab ante' it.

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “abante”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 11

• “abante”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• abante in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• abante in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.