Words of the day - 1
Do I create a new blog? Do I change this blog's name? Currently I don't do anything. I just post my posts on words of the day here.
Latin word of the day : ante
Meaning - before, previously
e.g.
Cogita ante salis.
Think before you leap.
ante is found in many words in English.
e.g.
- Antechamber: A small room before a big room
- Antepenultimate: Before the second last in a sequence
- Antedate : Date before another event in time
- Ante meridian: Before noon
- Antemortem : Place before death
- Antediluvian: Before the great flood
- Antebellum: Period before the war
- Antechoir: Section in the church before the choir
- Antelucan: Before dawn
- Antenuptial: Coming before marriage
- Antelude: A play before the main play
- Antescript: A note added before a script
- Antevocalic: A letter before a vowel
- Antetype: An earlier type of something
- Antiquity: Ancient times
- Antique: Belonging to the earlier period
- Anticipate: To realize beforehand
- Antebrachium: The forearm
Sanskrit word of the day : purva. (पूर्व )
The similar word to ante in Sanskrit is purva. (पूर्व )
पूर्व means before
तत्पूर्वं पीतुं किञ्चित् जलं ददातु।
Translation : Give some water to drink before that.
Similar to to ante, purva appears in so many words as a prefix.
- अभूतपूर्व - unprecedented
- पूर्वजन्म - previous life
- पूर्वागत -gone before
- पूर्वोक्ति - word said before
- पूर्वकाल - olden days
- पूर्वज - ancestor
- पूर्वानुमान - forecast
- पूर्वसिद्धता - preparation
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