köken: Inherited from Old French antoine, earlier anteivene, anteivne, inherited from Ecclesiastical Latin *antephona, a corrupted form of antiphona. Doublet of antiphone.
köken: Borrowed from Medieval Latin antiphōna, from Ancient Greek ἀντίφωνα (antíphōna, “verse response”), from ἀντίφωνος (antíphōnos, “responsive”), from ἀντί (antí, “against, in return”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”).