antea

From ante +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): /anˈtea/

antea

1. former, preceding, previous, prior, last, aforegoing, anterior

• antee
• ante-

• antideā (more archaic)

From ante (“before”) + ea (“these things”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈan.te.aː/, [ˈän̪t̪eäː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈan.te.a/, [ˈän̪t̪eä]

anteā (not comparable)

1. before, beforehand

   Antonym: posteā

2. formerly, previously

• Italian: anzi

• antehāc

• “antea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “antea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• antea 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)
• antea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.