English

anticardinal

From anti- + cardinal.

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- ‘forehead’

Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts ‘forehead’

Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti ‘opposite’

Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ ‘over against, opposite’

English anti-

Latin cardō

Latin cardinālis ‘pertaining to a hinge, hence applied to that…’

Middle French cardinal

Today it means

noun Synonym of pseudocardinal.

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

Etymograph / anticardinal