Anteriorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Latin anterior (“that is before, foremost”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /anˈtɪə.ɹi.ə/
• (General American) IPA: /ænˈtɪɹ.i.ɚ/
• 韻: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ)

形容詞

anterior (not comparable)

1. (anatomy) Nearer the forward end, especially in the front of the body; nearer the head or forepart of an animal.
   • 2013, Carole Hollins, Questions and Answers for Dental Nurses, page 44:

     Transillumination of anterior teeth, using the composite curing light placed labially to shine through the tooth and be viewed using the mouth mirror, shows up any cavities as dark interproximal shadows.

   • 2013 February 6, Jen Christiensen, “Vonn’s injury ‘career-delayer,’ not ‘career ender’”, in CNN‎:

     Her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and medial collateral ligament (MCL) are torn and Vonn has a lateral fracture of the tibial plateau, the upper end of the tibia or shin bone.

   1. (botany) (of a part of a flower or leaf) Situated further away from the mainstem.
   2. (phonetics) Pronounced with an obstruction located in front of the palato-alveolar region of the mouth, e.g. b, p, d, t.
2. (formal) Coming before or earlier in time or development, prior to, preceding.
   • 1859, John Stuart Mill, On Liberty:

     anterior to the time when mankind have become capable of being improved by free and equal discussion.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:former

反意語

• posterior

等位語

派生語

関連する語

• auricularis anterior
• past anterior

参照

• “anterior”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “anterior”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• https://logeion.uchicago.edu/anterior
• https://www.online-latin-dictionary.com/latin-english-dictionary.php?lemma=ANTERIOR100
• https://outils.biblissima.fr/en/collatinus-web/
• https://www.latin-is-simple.com/en/vocabulary/adjective/8759/?h=anterior

アナグラム

• eritoran, erration, rationer

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [anˈtɛ.ri.ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [anˈtɛː.ri.or]

形容詞

anterior (comparative, neuter anterius, no positive form); third declension

1. that (which is) is before one (in time), more forward, in the future; anterior (as opposed to posterior or backward in time); in front (of)
2. foremost
3. formerly (of time), previously

Inflection

Third-declension comparative adjective.

関連する語

• anterius (adverb)

派生した語

参照

• “anterior”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “anterior”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.