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Reconstruction:Latin/anteanus

This Latin entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Latin

Etymology

From ante (“before”) +‎ -ānus (adjective-forming suffix). Eventually surfaces in 13th century Medieval Latin as antiānus, by this point a borrowing from Romance.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /anˈt͡sʲaːns/

Adjective

*anteānus (feminine *anteāna, neuter *anteānum); first/second-declension adjective (Proto-Gallo-Romance)

  1. former, ancient, old

Reconstruction notes

Attested in Old French from ca. 1050 as ancienor (Vie de saint Alexis).[1]

Descendants
  • Franco-Provençal: ancian, ansyin, èssyin, anhyan, anhyàn, anchyan
  • Old French: ancien (see there for further descendants)
  • Occitan: ancian

References
  1. “ancien”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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