antipode

Back-formation from antipodes.

• IPA^(key): /ˈæn.tɪ.poʊd/^[1]

antipode (plural antipodes)

1. Something directly opposite or diametrically opposed.

   Synonym: antipous (rare)

   Hyponym: antithesis (opposite idea)

   • 1704, David Crawford, Love at First Sight: A Comedy‎^[1], London: R. Basset, page 58:

     The very Reverse of a Wit. The Antipode of Sense.

   • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 167:

     In many ways, Memphis was the antipode of Boston.

• antipodal
• antipodean

•   antipode on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• “antipode”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.

• adeption, antidope

Borrowed from Late Latin antipodes, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀντίποδες (antípodes), from ἀντί (antí, “against”) + πόδες (pódes), nominative plural of πούς (poús, “foot”).

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antipode m (plural antipodes)

1. (especially in plural) antipode
2. opposite

   deux hommes aux antipodes

   two totally opposite men

• manchot antipode

• “antipode”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Latin antipodes, from Ancient Greek ἀντίποδες (antípodes), from ἀντί (antí, “against”) + πόδες (pódes), nominative plural of πούς (poús, “foot”).

• IPA^(key): /anˈti.po.de/
• Rhymes: -ipode
• Hyphenation: an‧tì‧po‧de

antipode m or f (plural antipodi)

1. antipode

• agli antipodi
• antipode ottico

• antipode in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• pedinato, piatendo