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an⋅te

  [an-tee] noun, verb, -ted or -teed, -te⋅ing.
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–noun
1. Poker. a fixed but arbitrary stake put into the pot by each player before the deal.
2. an amount of money paid in advance to insure an individual's share in a joint business venture.
3. Informal. an individual's share of the total expenses incurred by a group.
4. Informal. the price or cost of something.
–verb (used with object)
5. Poker. to put (one's initial stake) into the pot.
6. to produce or pay (one's share) (usually fol. by up): He anted up his half of the bill.
–verb (used without object)
7. Poker. to put one's initial stake into the pot.
8. Informal. to pay (usually fol. by up).
Origin:
1830–40, Americanism; independent use of ante-
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ante-

 
a prefix meaning “before,” used in the formation of compound words: anteroom; antebellum; antedate.
Origin:
< L, prefixal form of prep. and adv. ante (see ancient ); akin to Gk antí, OE and- against, toward, opposite. See answer, and, anti-
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an·te   (ān'tē)   
n.  
  1. Games The stake that each poker player must put into the pool before receiving a hand or before receiving new cards. See Synonyms at bet.
  2. A price to be paid, especially as one's share; cost: "Whether they could actually turn back Soviet policy depended on many factors that Moscow might yet choose to test by upping the ante" (Foreign Affairs).
v.   an·ted or an·teed, an·te·ing, an·tes

v.   tr.
  1. Games To put (one's stake) into the pool in poker.
  2. To pay: Let's ante up the bill.
v.   intr.
  1. Games To put one's stake into the pool in poker: Don't look at your cards until everyone has anted.
  2. To pay up.

[From Latin, before; see ant- in Indo-European roots.]
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Ante

An"te\, n. (Poker Playing) Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante) the game begins.

Ante

An"te\, v. t. & i. To put up (an ante).
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : Ante
Spanish: agente,
German: der, *die Vertreter(in); der, *die Agent(in),
Japanese: 代理人
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ante 
1838 (n.), 1846 (v.), Amer.Eng. poker slang, apparently from L. ante "before," from PIE *anti "facing opposite, near, in front of, before" (cf. Skt. antah "end, border, boundary," Hittite hanti "opposite," Gk. anta, anten "opposite," anti "over against, opposite, before;" O.Lith. anta "on to;" Goth. anda "along;" O.E. and- "against;" Ger. ent- "along, against").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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