antepoñer

• antepor

From the Medieval form antepõer, from Latin antepōnere, present active infinitive of antepōnō. Cognate with Portuguese antepor.

antepoñer (first-person singular present antepoño, first-person singular preterite antepuxen, past participle anteposto)

1. (transitive) to put or place in front
   • 1318, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 147:

     Et o dito fernan garcia anteposeo con seus omes et con suas armas et leuouho consigo para a dita rrocha

     And said Fernán Garcia put him in front, with his men and weapons, and took him into said fortress

2. (pronominal) to put oneself ahead, to take the lead
3. (figurative, transitive) to fire

While antepoñer is the more widespread form of this verb, some Galician-speaking regions favor the form antepor and a correspondingly different conjugation.

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “antepõer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “antep”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “antepoñer”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “antepoñer”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “antepoñer”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN