English

Prefix

anti-

1. Against, hostile to.

   antiabortion

2. Contrasting with the norm.

   antihero

3. Opposite of, reverse.

   anticlockwise

4. Physically opposite: applied to mountain ranges.

   Anti-Lebanon, Anti-Taurus, Anti-Atlas

5. Counteracting, neutralizing.

   antibacterial

6. Related to antiparticles.

   antimatter, antiatom

7. (immunology) That reacts with immunoglobins found in the specified animal.

   antirabbit, antihorse

Usage notes

• Anti- should not be confused with ante-, which is a prefix of Latin origin meaning before. (However, anti- does exist as a variant spelling of ante- in some borrowed words, such as anticipate and antipasto, but this spelling cannot be used to coin English words.)
• Anti- sometimes becomes ant- before words beginning in a vowel.

  antacid

Antonyms

• (against, hostile to): pro-

Derived terms

• antiphosphoserine
• antiphosphospecific
• antiphosphothreonine
• antiphosphotyrosine

Translations

See also

• anti
• contra-
• counter-
• ob-

Catalan

Prefix

anti-

1. anti

Dutch

Pronunciation

Prefix

anti-

1. anti-

Derived terms

Finnish

Prefix

anti-

1. anti-

Derived terms

French

Prefix

anti-

1. anti-

Derived terms

German

Prefix

anti-

1. anti-

Derived terms

Hungarian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀντί ‎(antí, “against”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒnti]
• Hyphenation: an‧ti

Prefix

anti-

1. anti-

Derived terms

See also

• Appendix:Hungarian prefixes

References

1. ↑ Tótfalusi István, Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára. Tinta Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 2005, ISBN 963 7094 20 2

Ido

Etymology

Borrowing from English anti-, French anti-, German anti-, Italian anti-, Spanish anti-, Russian анти- ‎(anti-), all ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀντί ‎(antí).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈan.ti/

Prefix

anti-

1. anti-, contra-, counter- (for use mainly in scientific terms)

   anti- + ‎toxino ‎(“toxin”) → ‎antitoxino ‎(“antitoxin”)

Synonyms

• kontre-

Derived terms

Italian

Etymology

Latin ante ‎(“before”)

Prefix

anti-

1. anti-
2. ante-

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀντί ‎(antí, “against”).

Prefix

anti-

1. anti-

Derived terms

• anti-aldring

References

• “anti-” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀντί ‎(antí, “against”).

Prefix

anti-

1. anti-

Derived terms

• anti-aldring

References

• “anti-” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀντί ‎(antí, “against”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɐ̃ti/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɐ̃tʃi/, IPA^(key): /ˈɐ̃tʃ/

Prefix

anti-

1. anti-

Derived terms

Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀντί ‎(antí, “against”).

Prefix

anti-

1. anti-; against, opposite, protecting against

Derived terms