Etymology

anticous

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Today it means: Facing toward the axis, or central part, of the flower Full definition →

Latin anticus
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The story

  1. Latin · learned borrowing fromanticus“in front, foremost”
  2. English todayanticous

From Latin anticus (“in front, foremost”), from ante (“before”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.