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antedater

noun

Etymology

From antedate + -er.

  1. derived from דֶּקֶל — “date palm”
  2. derived from دَقَل — “variety of date palm”
  3. derived from δάκτυλος — “finger”
  4. derived from datil
  5. derived from dactylus
  6. derived from date
  7. inherited from date
  8. prefixed as antedate — “ante + date”
  9. suffixed as antedater — “antedate + er”

Definitions

  1. One who antedates something.

    • This is the bit that frustrates antedaters: earlier evidence may be rejected if it doesn't seem to clearly and completely fit the earliest given sense.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for antedater. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA