köken: Inherited from Old French antique, from antic, borrowed from Latin antīquus. Compare also the inherited Old French antive, from the Latin feminine antīqua, which analogically influenced a masculine form antif (compare a similar occurrence in Spanish antiguo).
the Antiquity, classical antiquity (the age between Homer and the Middle Ages) · antiques, antiquities (old pieces of furniture or other items) · antique (old piece of furniture or other item)
köken: A 19th-century neologism, from sens (“ancient”) + -atne (or perhaps from the adverb sen, q.v.), coined in 1869 by A. Kronvalds, following the pattern of jauns (“new”), jaunatne (“youth”) (originally “recent times”). Kronvalds also used the word senība in the same sense, which he had either heard from a dialect (it is attested as a dialectal term) or then created independently, following the…
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese antiguedade (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin antīquitas, antīquitātem. Cognate with Portuguese antiguidade and Spanish antigüedad.