Etymograph

English

antibeauty

From anti- + beauty.

Formed from anti- + beauty

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- ‘forehead’

Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts ‘forehead’

Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti ‘opposite’

Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ ‘over against, opposite’

English anti-

Proto-Italic *dwenos ‘good’

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Latin bellus ‘beautiful, pretty’

Vulgar Latin *bellitātem ‘beauty’

Old French beauté

Middle English bewty

English beauty

Today it means

adj Opposed to beauty.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / antibeauty