The story
- Latin · learned borrowing fromantae“pilasters”
- English todayanta
Learned borrowing from Latin antae (“pilasters”), with a back-formed singular form.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Today it means: A kind of pier that terminates the walls of the naos, a kind of post or pillar on either side of a doorway or entrance of a Greek temple. Full definition →
Latin antae