avanti
See also: Avanti
Italian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Late Latin ab ante.[1]
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editavanti (invariable)
Adverb
editavanti
- forward, ahead, onward
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XXI, p. 321 vv. 91-93:
- Per ch'io mi mossi e a lui venni ratto, ¶ e i diavoli si fecer tutti avanti, ¶ sì ch'io temetti ch'ei tenesser patto; [...]
- Wherefore I started and came swiftly to him, ¶ and all the devils forward thrust themselves, ¶ so that I feared they would not keep their compact; [...]
- (dated, rare) before, ere (followed by di or che)
- Deve pensare molto avanti di decidere. ― He needs to think a lot before deciding.
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto III, p. 45 vv. 118-120:
- Così sen vanno su per l'onda bruna, ¶ e avanti che sien di là discese, ¶ anche di qua nuova schiera s'auna.
- So they depart across the dusky wave, ¶ and ere upon the other side they land ¶ again on this side a new troop assembles.
- (dated, rare) rather than (followed by che)
- Vorrei morire avanti che commettere una simile azione. ― I'd rather die than doing such a thing.
Derived terms
edit- d'ora in avanti (“from now on”)
- avantieri / avant'ieri (“day before yesterday”)
Interjection
editavanti
Preposition
editavanti
- (dated, rare) before, in front of (a place) (may or may not be followed by a)
- (dated) before (in time)
Derived terms
edit- avanti Cristo (“before Christ”)
Noun
editavanti m (invariable)
References
edit- ^ Angelo Prati, "Vocabolario Etimologico Italiano", Torino, 1951
Further reading
edit- avanti in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- avanti in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- avanti in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- avanti in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- avanti in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- avanti in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
- avanti in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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