ab ante

== Latin == === Etymology === From ab (“away from”) +‎ ante (“before”). === Adverb === ab ante (not comparable) (Late Latin) (proscribed) in front, before === Preposition === ab ante (+ accusative) (Late Latin) (proscribed) away from before, in front of, before 5th c. CE, Sergius (grammarian) ==== Descendants ==== === References === Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “abante”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 11 === Further reading === “abante”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "abante", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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.