Etymology

anteroom

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Today it means: A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room. Full definition →

French antichambre ← Italian anticamera
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The story

  1. Italian · calque ofanticamera
  2. French · calque ofantichambre
  3. English todayanteroom

From ante- + room, as a calque of French antichambre or its model Italian anticamera.

Words from the same roots

Italiananticamera all →

ante-camera

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.