antes | OEDoS

antes (Adverb) "before" 12th cent. In the Middle Ages antes and ante were used side-by-side. Between the two, ante is the original form. Adverbial -s was added via analogy with other adverbs. A similar addition was made in quizá. See ante. Modern Spanish uses antes in a temporal sense and relegates ante to particular contexts. Indo-European Romance Asturian antes, Portuguese antes, Galician antes Basque Lapurdian aintzin "front," Roncalese antzin 'id.,' Zuberoan aitzin 'id.,' borrowed from a dialect in Proto-Romance Anzes appears in both the Glosas Emilianenses (11th cent.) and the Glosas Silenses (11th cent.) as a gloss for Latin prius "before." This variant in either Old Spanish or Old Aragonese was probably close to what was borrowed by Basque. See Trask (2008). Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/.