English

anticelibacy

From anti- + celibacy.

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- ‘forehead’

Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts ‘forehead’

Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti ‘opposite’

Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ ‘over against, opposite’

English anti-

Latin caelebs ‘unmarried’

Latin caelibātus ‘celibacy, a single life’

Today it means

adj Opposing celibacy.

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

Etymograph / anticelibacy