The corpus record — Latin

ăbante

from before

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What it meant — Lewis & Short

ăbanteab-ante, like Incircum, insuper, etc.; cf. also the Heb. and the Engl. from before.

I Prep. with abl., from before: abante oculis parcntis rapuerunt nymphae, away before the eyes of the father, Inscr. Grut. 717, 11. —

II Adv., before: ne (quis) abante aliam (arcam) ponat, Inscr. Orell. 4396.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.