anticipate

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ænˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/
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• Canada, General-American: /ænˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt/
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• Canada, General-American: [ɛənˈtɪs.ɪ.peɪt]
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• Canada, General-American: /ænˈtɪs.ə.peɪt/
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• Canada, General-American: [ɛənˈtɪs.ə.peɪt]
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• Australian: /ænˈtɪs.ɪ.pæɪt/
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• CMU ARPABET: AE0 N T IH1 S AH0 P EY2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Latin anticipātus, perfect passive participle of anticipō (“to anticipate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ante- (“before”), + capiō (“to take”, cip- when prefixed) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). See capable.

62 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: изпреварвам (izprevarvam) — to act before someone
• Esperanto: anticipi — to act before someone
• Finnish: ennakoida — to act before someone
• Finnish: varautua — to act before someone
• German: vorgreifen — to act before someone
• Ancient Greek: προλαμβάνω (prolambánō) — to act before someone
• Italian: anticipare — to act before someone
• Latin: anticipō — to act before someone
• Portuguese: antecipar-se — to act before someone
• Romanian: anticipa — to act before someone
• Russian: опережа́ть (operežátʹ) — to act before someone
• Russian: опереди́ть (operedítʹ) — to act before someone
• Spanish: anticiparse — to act before someone
• Bulgarian: прибързвам (pribǎrzvam) — to take up or introduce something prematurely
• Esperanto: anticipi — to take up or introduce something prematurely
• Finnish: ennakoida — to take up or introduce something prematurely
• German: erwarten — to take up or introduce something prematurely
• Portuguese: antecipar — to take up or introduce something prematurely
• Russian: предвосхища́ть (predvosxiščátʹ) — to take up or introduce something prematurely
• Russian: предвосхити́ть (predvosxitítʹ) — to take up or introduce something prematurely
• Arabic: تَوَقَّعَ (tawaqqaʕa) — to know of something before it manifests
• Arabic: اِرْتَقَبَ (irtaqaba) — to know of something before it manifests
• Bulgarian: предви́ждам (predvíždam) — to know of something before it manifests
• Catalan: anticipar — to know of something before it manifests
• Catalan: preveure — to know of something before it manifests
• Chinese Mandarin: 預料 /预料 (yùliào) — to know of something before it manifests
• Chinese Mandarin: 預想 /预想 (yùxiǎng) — to know of something before it manifests
• Danish: forudse — to know of something before it manifests
• Finnish: odottaa — to know of something before it manifests
• Finnish: varautua — to know of something before it manifests
• French: anticiper — to know of something before it manifests
• French: prévoir — to know of something before it manifests
• German: voraussehen — to know of something before it manifests
• German: vorausahnen — to know of something before it manifests
• Ancient Greek: προλαμβάνω (prolambánō) — to know of something before it manifests
• Ido: presavigar — to know of something before it manifests
• Italian: prevedere — to know of something before it manifests
• Japanese: 予想する (yosō suru) — to know of something before it manifests
• Kazakh: болжау (boljau) — to know of something before it manifests
• Kazakh: межелеу (mejeleu) — to know of something before it manifests
• Kazakh: шамалау (şamalau) — to know of something before it manifests
• Korean: 예상하다 (yesanghada) — to know of something before it manifests
• Latin: praesūmō — to know of something before it manifests
• Latin: anteveniō — to know of something before it manifests
• Latvian: paredzēt — to know of something before it manifests
• Māori: whakaneinei — to know of something before it manifests
• Polish: przewidzieć — to know of something before it manifests
• Polish: antycypować — to know of something before it manifests
• Portuguese: antecipar — to know of something before it manifests
• Portuguese: prever — to know of something before it manifests
• Romanian: prevedea — to know of something before it manifests
• Romanian: anticipa — to know of something before it manifests
• Russian: предви́деть (predvídetʹ) — to know of something before it manifests
• Spanish: anticipar — to know of something before it manifests
• Tocharian B: päkw- — to know of something before it manifests
• Ottoman Turkish: اوممق (ummak) — to know of something before it manifests
• Chinese Mandarin: 期待 (qī dài) — to eagerly await
• Chinese Mandarin: 拭目以待 (shìmùyǐdài) — to eagerly await
• Esperanto: antaŭĝoji — to eagerly await
• Finnish: odottaa — to eagerly await
• Hungarian: izgatottan/örömmel/repesve/türelmetlenül vár — to eagerly await
• Hungarian: alig vár — to eagerly await