anterior

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• Received-Pronunciation: /anˈtɪə.ɹi.ə/
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• General-American: /ænˈtɪɹ.i.ɚ/
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• rhymes with -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: AE0 N T IH1 R IY0 ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Latin anterior (“that is before, foremost”).

40 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: أَمَامِيّ (ʔamāmiyy) — anatomy: nearer the forward end
• Bulgarian: преден (preden) — anatomy: nearer the forward end
• Catalan: anterior — anatomy: nearer the forward end
• Chinese Mandarin: 前部 (qiánbù) — anatomy: nearer the forward end
• Esperanto: antaŭa — anatomy: nearer the forward end
• Finnish: etummainen — anatomy: nearer the forward end
• Finnish: etu- — anatomy: nearer the forward end
• Finnish: anteriorinen — anatomy: nearer the forward end
• French: antérieur — anatomy: nearer the forward end
• Galician: anterior — anatomy: nearer the forward end
• German: frontal — anatomy: nearer the forward end
• German: vorder — anatomy: nearer the forward end
• Greek: πρόσθιος (prósthios) — anatomy: nearer the forward end
• Indonesian: anterior — anatomy: nearer the forward end
• Italian: anteriore — anatomy: nearer the forward end
• Portuguese: anterior — anatomy: nearer the forward end
• Romanian: anterior — anatomy: nearer the forward end
• Russian: передний (perednij) — anatomy: nearer the forward end
• Spanish: anterior — anatomy: nearer the forward end
• Swedish: främre — anatomy: nearer the forward end
• Ukrainian: пере́дній (perédnij) — anatomy: nearer the forward end
• Bulgarian: предшестващ (predšestvašt) — before or earlier in time
• Catalan: anterior — before or earlier in time
• Dutch: anterieur — before or earlier in time
• Esperanto: antaŭa — before or earlier in time
• Finnish: edeltävä — before or earlier in time
• Finnish: aiempi — before or earlier in time
• Finnish: aikaisempi — before or earlier in time
• Finnish: edellinen — before or earlier in time
• Galician: anterior — before or earlier in time
• German: früher — before or earlier in time
• German: vorherig — before or earlier in time
• Japanese: 前の (saki no) — before or earlier in time
• Japanese: 優先する (yūsen suru) — before or earlier in time
• Japanese: 先行する (senkō suru) — before or earlier in time
• Japanese: 先んじる (sakinjiru) — before or earlier in time
• Portuguese: anterior — before or earlier in time
• Romanian: anterior — before or earlier in time
• Russian: предше́ствующий (predšéstvujuščij) — before or earlier in time
• Spanish: anterior — before or earlier in time