antemundane
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Being or occurring prior to the creation of the world.
Example Sentences
- "The night in all its fulness met her flatly on the threshold, like the very brink of an absolute void, or the ante-mundane Ginnung-Gap believed in by her Teuton forefathers."
- "Again he became the sorcerer Zon Mezzamalech in Mhu Thulan; again he dreamt to retrieve the wisdom of the antemundane gods […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti Proto-Italic *anti Latin ante Classical Latin ante-lbor. English ante- English mundane English antemundane From ante- + mundane.
Inflected Forms
ante-mundane (alternative)